Depoliticizing Crime and Decriminalizing Politics
The recent flap over the Bush Administration's firing of eight U.S. attorneys has demonstrated the escalation of two related and unfortunate trends in American politics: the politicization of crime and the criminalization of politics.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other Administration officials have contended that the firings were for "performance" reasons and emphasized that they were well within the prerogative of the president, since ...
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