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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

FORUM COLUMN

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."
      Sound familiar? It is the c...

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