It's quite obvious that this fool cannot be allowed to lead the nation's law enforcement agencies and our legal system. 

As long as he doesn't have meetings on tarmacs with spouses of people he's investigating then he'll be alright.

All they have to do is use one of trump's many properties.

From what I've heard lately on the news, I give him until the end of next week and, he'll be gone.

Another one of trump's best and brightest...NOT

IS MATTHEW G. WHITAKER the legitimate acting attorney general? From approximately the second President Trump ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and tapped Mr. Whitaker to temporarily exercise the office’s vast authority, legal experts have sparred over whether Mr. Trump can unilaterally elevate someone from a role that does not require Senate confirmation to one that does. But regardless of whether the promotion is legal, it is very clear that it is unwise. Mr. Whitaker is unfit for the job.

Several prominent legal scholars point out that the Constitution demands that “principal officers” of the United States must undergo Senate confirmation. A 19th-century Supreme Court case suggests there may be limited room for temporary fill-ins, but Mr. Whitaker’s appointment is hardly so temporary; he could serve for most of the rest of Mr. Trump’s first term. Even if Mr. Whitaker’s promotion is constitutional, Congress passed a law governing Justice Department succession that also seems to prohibit Mr. Whitaker’s ascent. The department has a capable, Senate-confirmed deputy attorney general in Rod J. Rosenstein; he should be running the department in the absence of a permanent replacement.

The Senate above all should be offended by the president’s end run around its authority. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) should demand hearings and consider filing a lawsuit. Instead, he is helping to establish a troubling precedent, saying only that he expects Mr. Whitaker to be a “very interim AG.” Yet no random official should be endowed with all the powers of an office as powerful as attorney general, meant for a Senate-vetted individual, even for a relatively short time.

And Mr. Whitaker is worse than random. It took less than 24 hours for material to emerge suggesting he could not survive even a rudimentary vetting.

First, there are Mr. Whitaker’s statements criticizing the Russia probe of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. At the least, they require him to consult Justice Department ethics counsel about whether he can oversee the inquiry with a plausible appearance of evenhandedness. He will do immediate and lasting harm to the Justice Department’s reputation, and to the nation, if he assumes the role of president’s personal henchman and impedes the Mueller probe.

Then there is Mr. Whitaker’s connection to a defunct patent promotion company the Federal Trade Commission called “an invention-promotion scam that has bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars.” Mr. Whitaker served on its board and once threatened a complaining customer, lending the weight of his former position as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Iowa to the company’s scheme.

Finally, and fundamentally most damning, is Mr. Whitaker’s expressed hostility to Marbury v. Madison , a central case — the central case — in the American constitutional system. It established an indispensable principle: The courts decide what is and is not constitutional. Without Marbury , there would be no effective judicial check on the political branches, no matter how egregious their actions.

If the Senate were consulted, it is impossible to imagine Mr. Whitaker getting close to the attorney general’s office. He should not be there now.

Then there is Mr. Whitaker’s connection to a defunct patent promotion company the Federal Trade Commission called “an invention-promotion scam that has bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars.” Mr. Whitaker served on its board and once threatened a complaining customer, lending the weight of his former position as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Iowa to the company’s scheme.

Apparently he is also unfamiliar with the Establishment Clause.  How typical for a unethical thief to wear Christianity on their sleeve.

patheos

A May 2014 report in  the Des Moines Register  cited the event, in a critical column by Register opinion writer Rekha Basu.

…“If they have a secular worldview, where this is all we have here on Earth, then I’m going to be very concerned about how they judge,” Whitaker says at the Family Leader debate on  a video  published in April 2014 by the progressive advocacy group Right Wing Watch.

Whitaker [said]: “Natural law often times is used from the eye of the beholder and what I would like to see — I’d like to see things like their world view, what informs them. Are they people of faith? Do they have a biblical view of justice? — which I think is very important because we all know that our government …”

...

“I’m a New Testament,” continued Whitaker. “And what I know is as long as they have that world view, that they’ll be a good judge. And if they have a secular world view, where this is all we have here on Earth, then I’m going to be very concerned about that judge.”

Trump invariably picks someone incompetent and crooked and ill informed for these positions. He must walk around with a mirror in his hand as he is making these decisions. 

Most political appointments are given to people who have no experience working through the ranks of whatever dept or agency they lead. James Comey had zero experience as an FBI agent, for example. But look at the bright side. When the Mueller report lays an egg for the left and they have to downplay the investigation then they'll have a scapegoat to fall back on.

Most political appointments are given to people who have no experience working through the ranks of whatever dept or agency they lead. James Comey had zero experience as an FBI agent, for example. But look at the bright side. When the Mueller report lays an egg for the left and they have to downplay the investigation then they'll have a scapegoat to fall back on.

Wow, talk about a false equivalency. Comey was the U.S. Deputy Attorney General and Acting Attorney General while John Ashcroft was hospitalized. 

Whitaker's last gig was as a pundit on CNN. 

But look at the bright side. When the Mueller report lays an egg for the left and they have to downplay the investigation then they'll have a scapegoat to fall back on.

Soooo, you're ok with someone who is being investigated by the FBI being in charge of the FBI? You're Ok with the president of the United States saying "Fuck the Constitution, I'll do what I want"?

Is Whitaker’s appointment unconstitutional?
That’s what Neal Katyal, former acting solicitor general under President Obama, and George Conway, a conservative lawyer and husband of top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, argue in a New York Times op-ed. According to them, it is unconstitutional for Whitaker to be named acting attorney general under the Appointments Clause of the Constitution, which says that “principal officers” of the United States must be nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.

The problem with Whitaker is that, as Sessions’ chief of staff, he wasn’t Senate-confirmed. (He was confirmed by the Senate to be a federal prosecutor in Iowa, but that was 14 years ago.)
“Constitutionally,” Katyal and Conway write, “Matthew Whitaker is a nobody.”
In other words, under this line of legal reasoning, Trump could have appointed the deputy attorney general or the solicitor general to fill the post, because both are Senate-confirmed positions. Or he could have appointed Whitaker to fill a lower vacant position in the Justice Department that isn’t considered to be a “principal officer.”
“For the president to install Mr. Whitaker as our chief law enforcement officer is to betray the entire structure of our charter document,” they write.

In response, a Justice Department spokesman tells TIME, “The VRA was passed in 1998 and Acting Attorney General Whitaker’s appointment was made pursuant to the procedures approved by Congress.”
“The VRA” refers to the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. In this case, Trump has relied on a provision of that act that says the president can choose any senior Justice Department official to serve as acting attorney general as long as that person has served in a high-level position for 90 days. Under this rule, Whitaker qualifies for the temporary position.
It’s an unresolved question about which argument would prevail in court in a situation like this. in 2003, the Office of Legal Counsel wrote that someone serving in an acting capacity, even in a principal role, is still an inferior officer because they’re only serving in that role temporarily. Under that interpretation, Whitaker’s appointment is fine.

But in a Supreme Court decision last year, Justice Clarence Thomas, arguably the most conservative justice on the court, wrote a concurring opinion that suggests he wouldn’t be inclined to accept the Justice Department’s reading of the VRA in this case.
In a 2017 case, the Supreme Court found on statutory grounds that the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board had been unlawfully appointed to his job without Senate confirmation. Thomas wrote a concurrence arguing that it was also unconstitutional under the Appointments Clause, because he found the role to be a principal position.
“Granting the President unilateral power to fill vacancies in high offices might contribute to more efficient Government,” Thomas wrote. “But the Appointments Clause is not an empty formality. … [The Framers] recognized the serious risk for abuse and corruption posed by permitting one person to fill every office in the Government.”

time

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker was paid $9,375 in 2014 by a Florida company called World Patent Marketing Inc. to serve in an advisory role, and, as a former U.S. attorney, vouch for the business’s general good standing.
World Patent Marketing Inc. is now the subject of an ongoing criminal inquiry by the FBI, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. And as of Wednesday, Whitaker is serving as attorney general, a role that could give him ultimate oversight into that investigation.

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It's kind of like letting Whitey Bolger run the FBI while he was being investigated.

“He’s a fucking fool,” one trial attorney inside the department said of the new AG. “

Anonymous source...The liberal go to when they want to lie.

The liberal go to when they want to lie.

Actually, being "fucking fool" is only the the third  requirement for work in the Scumbag "administration."  The first, of course, is absolute obedience to The Dear Scumbag and second to have complete disregard for the welfare of the nation.  But, in each one of these defectives, it's not always clear which qualification or combination is  being used in each decision or act. 

Actually, being "fucking fool" is only the the third  requirement for work in the Scumbag "administration." 

The other liberal go to when "anonymous source" and "racist" doesn't work...name calling.

Awwwwwwwww   

Well, I see you didn't deny my posts...at all.

Well, I see you didn't deny my posts...at all.

You need to get your vision checked, then.  

You need to get your vision checked, then.  

Nope....vision just fine. You still have not denied anything.....

Nope....vision just fine. You still have not denied anything.....

Since you need to have it spelled out:  Y-o-u-r   c-l-a-i-m-s   a-r-e   f-a-l-s-e .  S-e-e  t-h-a-t  n-o-w?

Trump, the big Quisling needs a little Quisling to protect the big Quisling's arse.

This too.  Whitaker is currently under two ongoing FBI investigations in his ( Whitaker's ) involvement with two 'now defunct' companies that committed fraud against consumers with one of those companies whose main clients were veterans.  Will Whitaker have to 'recuse' himself from these also?

Amazing.  Obama couldn't get away with wearing a tan suit and this guy ( the Trump ) is an obvious law breaker, money launderer, collaborator with foreign powers and a creature of infidelity.  Doesn't matter I guess, Dobson likes him.  Kiss the cross and pass the plate.