Does the leader of your country have the 'absolute right' to control the Justice Department of your country?

It’s not his like a division of a company. @eli1601

@SW-User Yes, it is.

@eli1601 Wrong
The ignorance
OMG

@SW-User idiot

@SW-User @eli1601 then why doesn’t he just shut down the investigation? By your logic it would be that simple. By your logic only states could investigate the President?

@eli1601 No you are
Appalling ignorance
So stupid you do not know how stupid you are

@eli1601 Flunked Social Studies, huh? Let me guess FOX-educated.

@SW-User Because there is nothing there and it gives him a chance to hammer the democrats

@anythingoes477 You really are a dumbass, aren't you?

@SW-User idiot

@eli1601 Not sure I’ve heard that one before. He is lacking in opportunity to hammer Democrats?

@SW-User The more ammunition, the better.

He’s very clever this Donald Trump.@eli1601

@SW-User Glad you noticed.

@eli1601 Just to let you know that Literaturegirl is allowed her opinion, it appears you do not like people who can think for themselves

@nedkelly Literaturegirl is not one of them

I’ll have to keep my eyes open to see clues about how Trump really wants the Mueller investigation to continue in order to beat up the Mueller investigation in order to have more of an opportunity to beat up democrats. And yet we have real indictments and guilty pleas..they must be pissed at Trump for not stopping it!. @eli1601

@SW-User Nothing to do with Russia collusion, though. And he can always pardon them later.

@eli1601 I’m sure they are looking forward to being pardoned. Sucks for them now, though. Expensive, too. They can’t earn and have hundreds of thousands in legal fees.

@SW-User Sometimes you have to take one for the team.

@eli1601 no it justice is a separate branch. there are three branches to the us government, executive, justice and legislative. pick up any hs civics book and learn something.

@ladycae https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Department-of-Justice-under-the-Executive-rather-than-the-Judicial-branch-of-government

The Dept. of Justice didn’t exist until the Administration of President Ulysses S. Grant, though there was an Attorney General long before that.

The Judiciary Branch didn’t get fleshed out in the Constitution, but was one of the first items of business for the 1st Congress in 1789: the Judiciary Act of 1789.

Both the original Attorney General and the Dept. of Justice were outgrowths of the Executive Branch.

Further, it had to be part of the Executive Branch, because the Constitution makes it clear that the Supreme Court can rule only on real cases, but can NOT issue advisory opinions. Since the Judicial Branch is only a COURT or courts, it cannot manage the legal needs of the President or the country. The Attorney General was originally the president’s attorney, and the Dept. of Justice was formed by Congress as part of the Executive as the legal business of the White House got more and more complex, esp. during the Civil War.