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Originally Posted by topnotch, standup guy
It is, after all, the president who makes policy and not the tools he appoints to his cabinet.
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The DOJ is typically hands off for Presidents. Some macro-policy they can influence, but trust me Obama isn't going to tell his Attorney General not to prosecute obscenity cases if Holder takes that route. Presidents know if they mess around with the DOJ it could cripple their administration quick with calls for a special prosecutor. And if the political pressure becomes great enough, one could even get appointed and who knows what happens...
Holder was acceptable to both Reagan and Bush 41, so he must have a conservative streak in him and one that seemingly got pulled from those religious activist groups quite well ten years ago.
Hopefully he was just ass kissing Republicans in power at the time.