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Article: SERVING THE LAW, NOT POLITICS
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 7, 1988
CopyrightCopyright 1988 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Attorney General Edwin Meese's resignation is an opportunity
for President Reagan to restore trust in the Justice Department by
appointing a person of unquestioned integrity and ability. Reagan
should recognize, as President Ford did in 1975, the importance of
maintaining public faith in the law.
For the future, presidential candidates George Bush and
Michael Dukakis should promise to end the practice of using the
office of the attorney general to repay political loyalty. They
must make a commitment now to appoint an attorney general whose
first duty is to the law and not to politics or the presidential
agenda.
The politicization of the attorney general's office is a
bipartisan ...