Does the President Have the Right to Expect Loyalty from His Attorney General?

by Alan M. Dershowitz • September 20, 2017 at 11:00 am

Under our constitutional structure there is no perfect cure for the mistake made by our founders in merging the two incompatible goals of the current Attorney General: that of political advisor to the president; and that of independent chief prosecutor. We are one of the few western democracies that mistakenly merged these roles into one. Our Attorney General is supposed to both advise the president politically… But at the same time, the Attorney General is supposed to be the head law enforcement officer of the United States – the chief prosecutor. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11038/does-the-president-have-the-right-to-expect