WASHINGTON - The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to end the Bush administration's ability to unilaterally fill U.S. attorney vacancies as a backlash to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' firing of eight federal prosecutors.
Essentially, the Senate returned the law regarding the appointments of U.S. attorneys to where it was before Congress passed the Patriot Act, including the unilateral appointment authority the administration had sought in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Note to Congress: Save us some trouble in future. READ the goddam things before you sign 'em into law.
Actually, although I am of course glad it's gone, I'm kinda glad the provision was in there. It let the administration take one more step too far off the pier. Another thing to get 'em for. Thank God for the elections. They forgot who has the subpœna power now.
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