Justice Department's independence is threatened as Trump's team asserts power over cases and staff
Pam Bondi had insisted at her Senate confirmation hearing that as attorney general, her Justice Department would not “play politics.”
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Apparently it's not independent. The "other team" just didn't know or care how to use it.
How could it ever be independent when the president selects the governments primary law enforcement officer?
Because our founding morons were so unbelievably insanely naive that they thought people would remain honorable and would simply pick the most qualified, impartial, person they knew of and they relied on the people eligible to vote (not as many idiots as today) to not reward the types of people who would make a dictatorship.
Our entire government and system of laws come from a group of naive asshats that came from a time where an agreement meant something and the idea of honor was more than just a joke. Our completely broken Congress and gerrymandered voting system has kept us from altering anything meaningful so we're stuck with what the founding morons designed for the most part. :/
It did help that duels were still a thing back then, also just murdering or maiming a politician was semi common. They werent naive per se they just figured that vigilante actions would cover the last mile.