Article: Former VP urges return to checks and balances.

Byline: Steve Vockrodt

Apr. 13--Walter Mondale has some advice for President Bush in case he's listening: Restore the constitutional checks and balances in government that have eroded in recent years. "I would argue that it is in the president's best interest to take my interpretation of the law, because just take this U.S. attorneys issue now," the former U.S. vice president said on the Kansas University campus Thursday night. "What they did was slip an amendment through the Congress when nobody was looking allowing the president to pick U.S. attorneys without having them confirmed through the Senate." Checks and balances are the cornerstone of U.S. ...

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