White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd
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Should the Whitehouse have anything to do with any investigation at all?
You imply that it should by this thread. As if the Whitehouse should be manipulating the justice system to whatever your ends du jour are. It's a conflict of interest that the Whitehouse should be involved in any investigation.
Maybe you don't realize that. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt although this thread smacks of half-baked bomb throwing and an implied guilt-by-association more appropriate for redstate or dailykos.
The three branches of gov't are the executive, legislative, and the judicial branch. Law enforcement is under the executive, so it's entirely within the right (and obligation even) of the presidency.
Maybe you're thinking of something like influencing judges, which certainly is a no-no.
Because the DOJ falls under the executive branch to fulfill its duties, doesn't mean that it's at the behest of the Whitehouse, nor should it. It's very disconcerting that anyone would think it should be.
Selective enforcement of the law is rampant and the Supreme Court has ruled statistical evidence of it is off the table: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow#Chapter_3:_The...