This may be a good idea to have U.S. Attorneys serve six year terms, but this still wouldn’t have stopped the Bush administration from firing nine U.S. Attorneys. Iglesias also suggests that U.S. Attorneys be removed only for misconduct. That would make it tough to remove those who are actually incompetent. Perhaps the solution would be for an impartial panel to decide on firings.
By The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- David Iglesias says U.S. attorneys should be appointed for 6-year terms that overlap administrations to minimize the influence of politics on what should be an independent federal office.
The former U.S. attorney for New Mexico was 1 of 9 federal prosecutors fired in a series of politically tinged dismissals in 2006. Iglesias spoke Friday at the Hispanic National Bar Association’s annual conference in Albuquerque.
Iglesias said in an interview that U.S. attorneys should only be removed for misconduct to ensure that politics stay out of federal prosecutions.
