Should the United States Attorney General be an Elected Official?

[Independents for Nihilism]

I can see the merit of this. A directly elected AG wouldn't be beholden to a potentially fickle president, but this is just trading one issue for another. You'd end up with AGs playing to the national mood in a different kind of partisan way instead. The examples below of Geraldine Ferrarro, Rudy Guiliani, Elliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott having been potential shoe-ins for this kind of role demonstrate that perfectly. As it stands, I'd prefer the devil you know to the devil you don't; at least in the current system, you can hold a president who plays partisan games with their AG accountable.