Joseph is 100% correct that “The President of the United States is the head of the Department of Justice as well as of every other departments, agency and branch of the executive government of the United States.”
Coffee addict, there is no “balance of power” within the executive branch. How could there be, since there is no “executive branch” outside the president. The US constitution says that the president *is* the executive; everyone who works in that branch works for him and exercises only those powers he has delegated to them. So how can there be a balance of power?
Eliezer, who is not a “reb”, the president *does* control the Justice Department, whether you like it or not. That’s how the constitution has it. And using that power to give someone a small measure of justice is not being a dictator.