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"Harry Hope" |
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20 Mar 2007 06:36:56 PM |
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Senate votes to end Gonzo's power to name prosecutors 94-2 |
From The Associated Press, 3/20/07:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660204801,00.html
Senate votes to end Gonzales' power to name prosecutors
By Pete Yost and Lara Jakes Jordan
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to end the Bush
administration's ability to unilaterally fill U.S. attorney vacancies
as a backlash to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' firing of eight
federal prosecutors.
Amid calls from lawmakers in both parties to resign, Gonzales got a
morale boost with an early-morning call from President Bush, their
first conversation since a week ago, when the president said he was
unhappy with how the Justice Department handled the firings.
With a 94-2 vote, the Senate passed a bill that canceled a Justice
Department-authored provision in the Patriot Act that had allowed the
attorney general to appoint U.S. attorneys without Senate
confirmation.
Democrats say the Bush administration abused that authority when it
fired the eight prosecutors and proposed replacing some with White
House loyalists.
"If you politicize the prosecutors, you politicize everybody in the
whole chain of law enforcement," said Judiciary Committee Chairman
Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
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Cool
Harry
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| User: "nesta far-i" |
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| Title: Re: Senate votes to end Gonzo's power to name prosecutors 94-2 |
20 Mar 2007 11:21:47 PM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
Cool
Harry
There are only two Republican Senators left who are not voting with the
Democrats? And people are still acting as if the ship hasn't sunk!
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| User: "Neolibertarian" |
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| Title: Re: Senate votes to end Gonzo's power to name prosecutors 94-2 |
20 Mar 2007 11:32:59 PM |
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In article <n0s0035eo5mce0bbvt57cjnej4qj9j00i6@4ax.com>,
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
"If you politicize the prosecutors, you politicize everybody in the
whole chain of law enforcement," said Judiciary Committee Chairman
Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
Tee-hee!
--
NeoLibertarian
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people,
and therefore deprive them of their arms."
---Aristotle
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