Grim has been demonstrating more and more unhappiness with the general situation over the last few years.
Here he gives a history lesson as a bonus, beginning by asking "What is the Constitutional Ground for the Department of Justice?"
...The question is rhetorical; I assume you all know the answer. It is not a Constitutional organ, but rather an old executive office, an outgrowth of the office of the Attorney General that was set up by a 1789 law passed by Congress and signed by a President -- George Washington, no less...
From that he draws a conclusion NOT shared by the current Wormtongue serving as A.G.:
...Neither the Attorney General nor the DOJ is meant to be independent of either Congress or the President, from whom all their authority is derived. Insofar as the Attorney General is misusing his power, those branches are responsible for him. That means that, like it or not, he answers to them. ...
Yes, really.
Bottom line?
...The DOJ is doing what its leaders please to do, politically: they are indeed functionally independent, exactly as they should never be. The system is broken, and is not capable of fixing itself. ...\
So ends today's merriment, should you have been having that.
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