(10-09-2019, 07:30 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(10-09-2019, 07:17 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: So you're saying that the AG's boss doesn't have to authority to do so? Is that your position?

I will admit that I have a big problem with the idea that all federal prosecutors get fired whenever we get a new president, and that the president can fire his own prosecutors at any time for no reason.
But leaving that aside, there are whole volumes of US code and supreme Court decisions laying out what is appropriate or inappropriate for a prosecutor.
And there are laws passed by Congress describing what each cabinet official's role is, and how succession within each department works.
In theory, I suppose the president could take up the mantle of being a prosecutor, and that would not conflict with the Constitution per se, but it would conflict with US code that has delegated this role to the cabinet. And it would require the President to abide by the same standards of probable cause and avoiding a conflict of interest as everyone else as he investigates.  In any case, don't think this has ever happened.
While the Kings of England sometimes sat in judgment, I think they always appointed prosecutors. I don't think they ever sat on the prosecutor's bench.