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Reexamine the limits on White House contact with the Justice Department

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 1, p. 28. Written by Rick Dearborn.

Reexamine the limits on White House contact with the Justice Department

The document says “shouldWho acts: President, White House Counsel, Attorney GeneralHow: internal managementp. 28 in the PDF
What the document says

“The next Administration should reexamine this policy and determine whether it might be more efficient or more appropriate for communication to occur through additional channels.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 28

The chapter describes the traditional practice by which the White House Counsel and the Attorney General each issue a memo restricting contact between the White House and the Justice Department to the Counsel's office and the Attorney General or Deputy Attorney General. It says the next Administration should reexamine that policy and decide whether communication through additional channels would be better. The chapter proposes no replacement policy.

What the document actually says

“The next Administration should reexamine this policy and determine whether it might be more efficient or more appropriate for communication to occur through additional channels.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 28
That sentence, in plain words

The next president should look at this rule again. He should decide whether it is better to allow more ways to talk.

What this is about

There is a long-standing rule about the White House and the Justice Department. Only a few named people are allowed to talk to each other. This is meant to keep politics out of legal cases. The chapter says the next president should look at that rule again. It does not say what should replace it.

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