"The U.S. justice system does not serve at the pleasure of ... this president"

leahy's one tough cookie, and, if i was going up against him, i would be very concerned...

"I was a prosecutor for eight years," [Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)] said. "I've always tried to have a few witnesses honing back in case we need them and I suspect we will have them."

Leahy added, "We saw in the paper this morning people saying we had a $130 billion case against big tobacco companies until the White House said no, you can't hit them with any kind of a fine like that. That's awful, they're friends of ours, cut it down to $10 billion. And, in fact, a career member of the Justice Department was given a summation that she was required to read word for word. I've never known of a lawyer giving a summation to the court where somebody else wrote it and they had to read it. It's never happened in my experience. She's very upset about this. A lot of other people are."

[...]

Leahy added, "This is a -- I realize U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president, but the U.S. justice system does not serve at the pleasure of either this president or any other president. And we intend to find out just what happened."

i'm waiting as patiently as i can, which, given the 6+ years i've been waiting, isn't very...

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