The American Conscience

... is not dead. Via McClatchy:

Twenty former U.S. attorneys, both Republicans and Democrats, urged a federal judge Thursday to intervene in a constitutional battle over whether two White House officials should be forced to testify before Congress about the firings of nine U.S. attorneys.

The politicization of the Justice Department was just among the most important of many administrative departments used and abused by this administration, which viewed everything through a political lense.

But even many of those who owed their jobs to this administration saw the implications. From the brief:

"This congressional inquiry involves the possible subversion of principles at the core of Constitutional government," they wrote. "It is a matter of the utmost importance for Congress to conduct a complete investigation to determine whether White House officials have injected, or attempted to inject, partisan considerations into a process that must be rigorously insulated from such considerations."

Score one for the Constitution.