right. regardless of where you stand on his performance as attorney general, hiring eric holder is a political move. if uber actually cared about investigating this, they wouldn't have hired a politician.
AG is a Presidential appointment with Congressional confirmation. While those appointed are not necessarily politicians, it is most certainly a political position.
Direct Presidential appointees are absolutely political; cabinet members more than most.
> That term has a real meaning in the circles which matter (i.e., politics), and AG is not considered a political position.
It actually has a fairly vague and shifting meaning even within politics, but by virtually any of them the Attorney-General is very much a political position.
That must be why Trump fired Sally Yates then...
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Really, it's about as political as it gets. Or did you think Jeff Sessions would so much as be looked at under a Democratic president?
Yes, exactly. The appointee is appointed to implement the administration's policies, which are political. During George W. Bush's administration, state Attorneys General were directed to pursue investigations of voter fraud. The eight who did not were fired in 2004 and replaced, which was very unusual.
Anything involving the law is political.
Any time two people interact, politics comes up.