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political organization or a political team designed to get
Attorneys General, along with comptrollers and governors,
into public office. The only time that an attorney
general is politically independent, it would appear to me,
is that point when an attorney general is elected and the
head of his ticket is not elected to office; then he is
independent of the party of the governor, but he may find
himself in another difficult political position, difficult
in some ways and rewarding in others, rewarding in that he
may be the highest elected official of his party in his
! State.
This places on him a series of political bur-
dens which can seriously interfere, it seems to me, with
the conduct of his office in giving legal advice to the
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governor and to the agencies under the control of the
governor.
I find it very difficult to distinguish between
legal and political advice when it comes to the operation
of the government, because the legal advice is very often
j necessary to pursue the political objectives of an
administration.