Key House Democrat: For the Bush administration, politics comes before justice

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Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), House Democratic Caucus chair, says, "For the Bush Administration, politics comes before justice. Talented prosecutors investigating public corruption cases are fired for no reason, while a top Justice official has been vacationing with a lobbyist from the industry she is supposed to regulate."

Emanuel refers to a report in today's Washington Post about a recently resigned senior assistant attorney general, Sue Ellen Woolridge, who "bought a nearly $1 million vacation home with a lobbyist for ConocoPhillips months before approving consent decrees that would give the oil company more time to pay millions of dollars in fines" while meeting refinery cleanup rules at some of its sites, according to the Post article.

Meanwhile, several U.S. Attorneys actively investigating cases of public corruption have been terminated in recent weeks, some purportedly without cause. Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-CA), chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, has announced hearings to probe the recent firings.

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[illinoisprogressive]

1. Everything the administration does is with politics in mind. never the people