Monica and her fellow disciples from Jesus Christ Law School believed that they were on a misson from God.

Al Gore believes he is on a mission to “save the world.” That doesn’t mean he is a loon, does it.

Than again….maybe you are on to something.

(B) “covered position” means, with respect to any personnel action, any position in the competitive service, a career appointee position in the Senior Executive Service, or a position in the excepted service, but does not include any position which is, prior to the personnel action—
(i) excepted from the competitive service because of its confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character; or
(ii) excluded from the coverage of this section by the President based on a determination by the President that it is necessary and warranted by conditions of good administration; and

U.S. Attorneys positions are policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating in character. Thus, they are covered under the exception shown in the bolded language above. You can read the whole law here: 5 USC 2302.

2302(b) of title 5 of the United States Code

b) Any employee who has authority to take, direct others to take, recommend, or approve any personnel action, shall not, with respect to such authority–
(1) discriminate for or against any employee or applicant for employment–

(A) on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, as prohibited under section 717 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e-16);
(B) on the basis of age, as prohibited under sections 12 and 15 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (29 U.S.C. 631, 633a);
(C) on the basis of sex, as prohibited under section 6(d) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(d));
(D) on the basis of handicapping condition, as prohibited under section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 791); or
(E) on the basis of marital status or political affiliation, as prohibited under any law, rule, or regulation;

In case anyone wants to read the law. There is an exception to this but the action has to specifically come from the President.

I am shocked! Just shocked!

Iconic Midwest:

I will leave it to you and others as to whether I am a bigot. But I would be remiss not to note in passing that Monica and her fellow disciples from Jesus Christ Law School believed that they were on a misson from God.

I know, I know…some of your best friends are chistians….

Only the staunch right-wingers think that this affair is a non-issue. The actions of this administration with regards to DoJ are not par for the course.

And sorry, after listeing to Mary Frances Berry rant about voter suppression in 2000 and later even though the data did not support her one bit, the Democrats have no crediblity claiming that the Republicans tried to suppress votes. When the Democrats oppose any sort of voter ID requirements, they lose all credibility on voting issues.

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I infer from your question that your answer would be: “To make political points.”

I would answer similarly, but then add the following: There was a systematic effort to profoundly politicize the Justice Department. There was a systemic effort to try to supress Democratic turnout in key states in the run-up to the 2006 elections on the bogus grounds that there was widespread voter fraud. There was a systemic effort to replace career Main Justice employees with political hacks, including a goodly number from a fourth-rate law school where an inordinate number of graduates couldn’t pass the bar exam. There was . . . You get the idea.