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In some cases, Justice Department leaders can supervise investigations despite having personal knowledge about the entities involved.
Independence sounds good in theory, but in practice, it is mutually exclusive with accountability. The more independence you give a prosecutor, the less you make that prosecutor accountable to the public and regular checks and balances.
Institutionalizing dissent in our agencies moves us toward a healthier democracy and helps fulfill our founders' vision.
It simply cannot be that the president can name his own temporary attorney general to supervise an investigation in which he and his family have a direct, concrete interest.
It's definitely true that law enforcement investigations expand over time in appropriate ways.
It's such a dangerous thing for desperation to drive litigation.
Justice Scalia was usually particularly challenging to me at oral argument, but I so respected his intellect and commitment to the pursuit of truth.
Many programs are built on the government's spending power, and the existence of an extraconstitutional limit on that power is a worrisome development.
Merrick Garland was the most qualified nominee, not just in our lifetimes but perhaps in the history of the United States Supreme Court. The chief judge of the D.C. Circuit for 20 years, the nation's second-highest court. Never once been overruled by the Court in his 20 years. He was extraordinary.
My parents wanted to keep me away from girls, so they sent me to a Catholic boy's school, the Loyola Academy in Chicago.
My wife is a doctor at a veteran's hospital.
No one wants a president to be guilty of obstruction of justice. The only thing worse than that is a guilty president who goes without punishment.
No responsible scholar who thinks a sitting president cannot be indicted also thinks an attorney general can try to truncate a process of oversight - by Congress, for example - by 'pre-clearing' the president in advance.
Obstruction of justice requires a corrupt intent.
One of our Constitution's greatest virtues is that it looks to judges as a source of reasoned, practical, rights-minded decision making.
One thing we know about government after the New Deal is that checks and balances through whistle-blowing is terrible policy.
Our constitutional system is defined by a balance between the public's need for transparency and the government's need to have a zone of secrecy around decision making. Both are important, yet they are mutually exclusive.
Our founders recognized that 'men were not angels' and that checks and balances in government were critical to avoid threats to the rule of law.
Our Supreme Court has been very clear that the government can't just simply say something and make it so.
People tend to take more risks in groups than alone. For these reasons, the law has always treated conspiracy harshly.
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