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ceejayozyesterday at 6:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

An alternative view is his personality used to be what you want (in theory) as both AG and SCOTUS justice - slow, deliberate, non-partisan.


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wat10000yesterday at 10:04 PM

There's slow, and then there's taking more than four years to prosecute high-profile crimes committed in plain view.

insane_dreameryesterday at 7:12 PM

I agree; but different times called for different measures. There was also too much of a feeling of "whew, that was close, but now we can get back to normal" instead of "let's make sure that never happens again".