From MSNBC.com:
"WASHINGTON - The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday 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.
Amid calls from lawmakers in both parties to resign, Gonzales got a morale boost with an early-morning call from President Bush, their first conversation since a week ago, when the president said he was unhappy with how the Justice Department handled the firings.
With a 94-2 vote, the Senate passed a bill that canceled a Justice Department-authored provision in the Patriot Act that had allowed the attorney general to appoint U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation. Democrats say the Bush administration abused that authority when it fired the eight prosecutors and proposed replacing some with White House loyalists."
Good work, but let's not forget that executive stacking of the Judiciary has been going on for quite along time from John Adams to FDR, and at times it makes sense (that is, if you support the Pres or not). Still the provision was a sneaky act which was immoral if it turns out that a member of Arlen Specter's office was bribed to insert it. Remember when thieves had class?
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