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Roll Call: Dems to Press AG on Dismissals

By Justin Rood - January 18, 2007, 9:24AM

The Senate Judiciary Committee's oversight hearing is set to begin in a few moments, featuring testimony from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

His surprise announcement that the administration's domestic wiretapping program would now receive some form of FISA court approval will surely be a topic of discussion. But Roll Call today reports (sub. req.) that key Democrats aren't dropping the issue of why so many U.S. Attorneys are being fired and replaced with administration appointees:

. . . [I]n what promises to be one of many showdowns between Congressional Democrats and the Bush administration, [Sens. Patrick] Leahy ([D-VT)] and [Dianne] Feinstein [(D-CA)] intend to grill Gonzales on the issue at a Judiciary Committee hearing today. Several Judiciary Democrats, who met Wednesday to plot strategy and discuss scheduling, said they were concerned about the appearance of undue political influence on the legal process.

“As a former prosecutor, I can’t believe they would give more power to the administration to interfere with prosecutions,” Leahy stated.

Added Maryland Democratic Sen. Benjamin Cardin: “I think the independence of the U.S. attorney’s office is something of major concern” to committee Democrats.

Update: You can watch the hearing live via webcast here (RealAudio).

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TOPICS: Alberto Gonzales, U.S. Attorneys

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There's also this little gem from Gonzales yesterday: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id//16668110/
(Gonzales says US Judges are unfit to rule on terror policies). Because the judiciary is unelected, and therefore "inferior" to the excutive and legislative branches, claims Gonzalez, it should defer to those other branches. (But what about the role of the judiciary in rulings when it's Congress trying to exercise oversight of the Bush administration?)

I think Gonzalez has amply demonstrated his lack of respect for the judiciary, and this provision of the Patriot act must be removed immediately -- we can't trust these guys (Gonzalez and Bush) farther than we can throw them

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Feinstein got him to admit that he had, in fact, asked US Attorneys to resign. She had to push him, but he still wasn't very forthcoming.

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Who elected Gonzalez? Using his line of reasoning he is also "inferior" and should defer to the legislative branch.

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So are any of the resigned attornies scheduled to testify about their working environment, the conditions of their departure, the edicts of their bosses, etc? Why not just ask them instead of speculating about it? I don't like this authority being given over to the Executive, but it seems like some simple inquiries would circumvent a lot of apprehension and misunderstanding.

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