Particularly since they were fired for political reasons. But that this is where the Democratic leadership has decided to start their investigations of the Administration just points to the cowardice of the leadership. This is one where they will investigate and bellow and bluster and then shrug.
And the shrug is where this one should start. The prosecutors are tools of the Executive as the Executive carries out its law enforcement duties. The check on the power of federal prosecutors is the federal judiciary, not the Congress. That the federal judges are mostly Republican appointees is just the way it worked out this time. Next time it might be different.
While the Founders didn't anticipate political parties, they did anticipate regional factions and they expected that from time to time different factions would control different branches and they thought, rightly, that would be a good thing.
I say "rightly" under the assumption that any given political faction is acting for the good of the country. Of course, the faction that Dear and Glorious Leader represents is acting for the good of corporate American and consciously and directly against the good of the American people. But an informed, involved electorate and an active, courageous opposition party can correct all that.
The Democratic leadership needs to be gearing up for impeachment of the president and the veep, not just nibbling around the edges of things that are within the president's rightful Constitutional powers.
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