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To: ChanceIs who wrote (164519)	11/15/2008 11:10:16 PM
From: James Hutton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

"Clinton was big on using the Department of Justice as a policy tool. I am not sure that this is a bad thing, or that every other president doesn't engage in it. DOJ like every other corporate entity has a limited budget, and priorities must be set. That prerogative belongs to the Prez." All administrations use DOJ as a policy tool, whether it be through aggressive enforcement (using the examples you cite), or through a lack of enforcement (e.g., the virtual lack of effective enforcement of environmental laws during the Bush Administration). What will be interesting is how a DOJ trying to implement Obama policies will fare in a federal judiciary that now seems to be tilted to the right (extreme right in some cases).