Government
Mar. 23, 2007
Prosecution Politics
Forum Column - By Rory K. Little - The result of the imbroglio over the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys should be to further cement the independence of prosecutors.
Rory K. Little
Joseph W. Cotchett Jr. Professor of Law
UC Hastings College of the Law
Email: littler@uchastings.edu
Rory clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court and also served as an associate deputy attorney general in 1996-97
By Rory K. Little
"They have fallen on a plan to remove from office every man who professes Republican principles, and fill those offices with men who will bend to the nod of the Executive. ... If a man cannot be led to believe as the President believes in politics ..., he is not to fill an office in the United States."
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