If Bush replaced Prosecuters with hand picked choices...

[Homer12]

...while the orginal federal prosecuters were invetigating something that the administration did not want them too; would this be the federal crime of Obstruction of Justice?

[robinlynne]

1. obstruction already happened. (san deigo) by firing carol lam.

[Homer12]

2. Bush is officaly screwed!

n/t

[Kagemusha]

3. In all seriousness, AG Gonzales lying about it was the bigger provable crime

If he'd just told the truth and said yes, it's crass politics, we wanted cronies and sycophants who would better implement our political priorities (though we expect them to do it in an up-and-up way), you got a problem with that!? ...If Gonzales had said that, he wouldn't be in trouble at all. Well, a lot less than he is.

Bush is presenting this as a spin problem.

[BuyingThyme]

4. Yes.

-STATUTE-
Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs, resists, or opposes
any officer of the United States, or other person duly authorized,
in serving, or attempting to serve or execute, any legal or
judicial writ or process of any court of the United States, or
United States magistrate judge; or
Whoever assaults, beats, or wounds any officer or other person
duly authorized, knowing him to be such officer, or other person so
duly authorized, in serving or executing any such writ, rule,
order, process, warrant, or other legal or judicial writ or process
-
Shall, except as otherwise provided by law, be fined under this
title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

-STATUTE-
(a) Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any
threatening letter or communication, endeavors to influence,
intimidate, or impede any grand or petit juror, or officer in or of
any court of the United States, or officer who may be serving at
any examination or other proceeding before any United States
magistrate judge or other committing magistrate, in the discharge
of his duty, or injures any such grand or petit juror in his person
or property on account of any verdict or indictment assented to by
him, or on account of his being or having been such juror, or
injures any such officer, magistrate judge, or other committing
magistrate in his person or property on account of the performance
of his official duties, or corruptly or by threats or force, or by
any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or
impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due
administration of justice, shall be punished as provided in
subsection (b). If the offense under this section occurs in
connection with a trial of a criminal case, and the act in
violation of this section involves the threat of physical force or
physical force, the maximum term of imprisonment which may be
imposed for the offense shall be the higher of that otherwise
provided by law or the maximum term that could have been imposed
for any offense charged in such case.

-STATUTE-
Whoever feloniously steals, takes away, alters, falsifies, or
otherwise avoids any record, writ, process, or other proceeding, in
any court of the United States, whereby any judgment is reversed,
made void, or does not take effect; or
Whoever acknowledges, or procures to be acknowledged in any such
court, any recognizance, bail, or judgment, in the name of any
other person not privy or consenting to the same -
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five
years, or both.