Chris Christie’s best position is as Attorney General, but only after every US Attorney now on staff with the DOJ has been fired.
Bill Clinton sort of set the precedent back in 1993, when 93 US Attorneys were dismissed. The media were totally unimpressed with such a move, until George W. Bush also attempted to fire most of the US Attorney staff in 2006, then they saw that as a reason to get all huffed and puffed up about the “blatant” disregard for “rule of law”.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of practicing attorneys out there that have a REAL respect for Constitutional law, and not just looking for loopholes, as many of the current crop does. Surely in this pool, there are sufficient number to repopulate the Department of Justice with those whose purpose is to UPHOLD the law, not to torture it into some grotesque parody of itself, lacking in all spirit of which the law was originally constructed.
Then, following that, start in on the ranks of Federal judges and Supreme Court justices, making the appointments not for life, as is now the case, but limiting EVERY ONE of them to a term of no more than ten years, at which time they may be re-appointed, or step down.
Joni: 1) not ready
2) Puts the seat at risk down the road. WE ALL worked too hard for that seat after a lifetime of Harkin.