The president has taken shots at Trump over a number of issues in recent months, but he has stayed largely silent on the four separate indictments against his predecessor.

  • @buddhabound
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    171 year ago

    There’s a constitutional reason the justice department falls under the president. It is a function of the executive branch, from Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution: “…shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed…”. The DoJ is the enforcement arm of the executive branch.