I'll wait until you post more details, but I was just going to note that yesterday the AG published an anti-Ducey document. He put out an amicus brief against the governor's covid decisions. Point being he's not afraid of Ducey like all the other GOP whom you said won't say a critical word about him.
Even so, I must say the AGO can be very political and more political than most people realize. One example is Florida about 15 years ago. There was a huge national scam run out of Orlando. Tons of complaints sent to the AG. Negative press against the scammers left and right. Evidence of fraud far greater than needed to prosecute. Assistant Attorney at AGO ready and wants to file lawsuit. All looks good.
Then the AG transfers the file to Tampa AGO without explanation. The new attorney has a reputation for "making cases go away." He sits on the evidence for months pretending to be serious, waiting for consumer outrage to dissipate. Then he closes the case. Case closed.
The leader of the scam, however, was later arrested, convicted, and went to prison, where he passed away.
The point is, like you realized, an AG can't be trusted because it's an AG. There are corrupt AGs and there are corrupt staff. Just like at the AG under Barr which did useless investigations and never prosecuted.
I have no personal experience with or special knowledge about the AZ AG or any of is staff. Maybe they are different. Maybe they aren't different.
I would never put all or most of my trust in an AG I personally did not know. You can't trust them on timing or final decisions. You don't know their baseline (integrity) before they hear evidence and you don't know how easily they can be bought off after they hear it.
P.S. And, yes, the FL AG in the story was GOP. Labels mean nothing.
I'll wait until you post more details, but I was just going to note that yesterday the AG published an anti-Ducey document. He put out an amicus brief against the governor's covid decisions. Point being he's not afraid of Ducey like all the other GOP whom you said won't say a critical word about him.
Even so, I must say the AGO can be very political and more political than most people realize. One example is Florida about 15 years ago. There was a huge national scam run out of Orlando. Tons of complaints sent to the AG. Negative press against the scammers left and right. Evidence of fraud far greater than needed to prosecute. Assistant Attorney at AGO ready and wants to file lawsuit. All looks good.
Then the AG transfers the file to Tampa AGO without explanation. The new attorney has a reputation for "making cases go away." He sits on the evidence for months pretending to be serious, waiting for consumer outrage to dissipate. Then he closes the case. Case closed.
The leader of the scam, however, was later arrested, convicted, and went to prison, where he passed away.
The point is, like you realized, an AG can't be trusted because it's an AG. There are corrupt AGs and there are corrupt staff. Just like at the AG under Barr which did useless investigations and never prosecuted.
I have no personal experience with or special knowledge about the AZ AG or any of is staff. Maybe they are different. Maybe they aren't different.
P.S. And, yes, the FL AG was GOP.