Confirmation Hearing: TimTurner for Attorney General (Confirmed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

An issue that came up last summer was the lack of available attorneys to serve as defense consul. What actions will you take to restore the legal culture in this game and thereby insure the resources are there to carry out a successful legal proceeding?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What changes should be made to ensure that the Attorney General's office remains independent from interference within the executive branch?

As a follow on, in the past, particularly with the example cited by Truman regarding myself and Oakvale, the "responsible" President served as the check on the Attorney General. However, if we are to put some barriers between the President and the Attorney General, what measures should be taken to maintain the accountability of the Attorney General? Senate Removal?

Lastly, a big concern that existed previously was that the Attorney was also a regional executive. Would you support restricting regional executives from serving in the position, since historically, aside from criminal trials, cases involving regional actions tend to dominate Attorney General activity?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

An issue that came up last summer was the lack of available attorneys to serve as defense consul. What actions will you take to restore the legal culture in this game and thereby insure the resources are there to carry out a successful legal proceeding?

I'll see what can be done on the issue. I'm open to suggestions, and I feel somewhat confident some kind of solution can be reached.

In the past we had the Supreme Court Bar system, but that fell into disuse and got rolled into an omnibus useless bill repeal.

Not sure if that would work but certainly some kind of outreach effort to the community's legally minded people mind be a good place to start. That would be a decent project for the Attorney General to spearhead.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I motion for a vote on confirmation. Senators have 24 hours to object.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I understand expediency but we shouldn't be screwing Senators out of their rights to save a few hours. It is this kind of corner cutting that creates the notion that it is acceptable to deprive Senators of other rights, such as the right of an equal opportunity to cast a vote for instance, as WD did.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Opening the vote now since I don't trust myself to still be up later.

A vote on the confirmation is now open for 96 hours. Please vote Aye, Nay, or Abstain.

Confirmed

Aye