Next Attorney General Must Restore Trust, Not Seek Retribution

[Michie]

The de-politicization of the Department of Justice, not its reverse politicization, should be the order of the day.

No one understands the modern news cycle better than President-elect Donald Trump.

His lightning-quick pivot from the failed attorney general nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, giving his critics scarcely any time to gloat, is the latest example of his media mastery.

That’s not to say his pick of Gaetz wasn’t a blunder — it was. (That is, unless it was all a clever scheme to extricate the rebel Gaetz from the House, as some have theorized.) Gaetz was never a plausible attorney general, possessing neither a distinguished legal mind nor the principled background any good AG needs to curb a president’s imprudent uses of the law.

More worrisome was that Gaetz had spoken openly about seeking vengeance against his political rivals, which is precisely what the Justice Department doesn’t need right now.

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Next Attorney General Must Restore Trust, Not Seek Retribution

The de-politicization of the Department of Justice, not its reverse politicization, should be the order of the day.

www.ncregister.com

 

[tz620q]

The de-politicization of the Department of Justice, not its reverse politicization, should be the order of the day.

No one understands the modern news cycle better than President-elect Donald Trump.

His lightning-quick pivot from the failed attorney general nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, giving his critics scarcely any time to gloat, is the latest example of his media mastery.

That’s not to say his pick of Gaetz wasn’t a blunder — it was. (That is, unless it was all a clever scheme to extricate the rebel Gaetz from the House, as some have theorized.) Gaetz was never a plausible attorney general, possessing neither a distinguished legal mind nor the principled background any good AG needs to curb a president’s imprudent uses of the law.

More worrisome was that Gaetz had spoken openly about seeking vengeance against his political rivals, which is precisely what the Justice Department doesn’t need right now.

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Next Attorney General Must Restore Trust, Not Seek Retribution

The de-politicization of the Department of Justice, not its reverse politicization, should be the order of the day.

www.ncregister.com

The article makes a lot of sense and hopefully will be prescient for what will happen. I would like to take this one step further. Here in Indiana there is an old back woods saying, "It is better to have a skunk inside your tent spraying outwards, than outside spraying inwards." The best way to squelch a 2017 style resistance movement that gridlocks government is to make honest efforts to include the Democrats in the process of legislation. There are many Democratic members of Congress that have good ideas and are willing to work with Republicans to craft bipartisan bills. It is time to drop the pride down a notch and humbly work to make this country better.

 

[concretecamper]

The de-politicization of the Department of Justice, not its reverse politicization, should be the order of the day.

No one understands the modern news cycle better than President-elect Donald Trump.

His lightning-quick pivot from the failed attorney general nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, giving his critics scarcely any time to gloat, is the latest example of his media mastery.

That’s not to say his pick of Gaetz wasn’t a blunder — it was. (That is, unless it was all a clever scheme to extricate the rebel Gaetz from the House, as some have theorized.) Gaetz was never a plausible attorney general, possessing neither a distinguished legal mind nor the principled background any good AG needs to curb a president’s imprudent uses of the law.

More worrisome was that Gaetz had spoken openly about seeking vengeance against his political rivals, which is precisely what the Justice Department doesn’t need right now.

Continued below.

Next Attorney General Must Restore Trust, Not Seek Retribution

The de-politicization of the Department of Justice, not its reverse politicization, should be the order of the day.

www.ncregister.com

Written by a true liberal protecting his own.