Early this week, long before his testimony (see below) before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales received a letter from the American Freedom Agenda, a group comprised of a few heavy-hitting conservatives. A mash note designed to steady Gonzales before his appearance before the Committee? Nope. A tepid show of support for the embattled Attorney General by his political allies? Nope. A biting demand that he resign? You got it. “Mr. Gonzales has presided over an unprecedented crippling of the Constitutions time-honored checks and balances,” the authors wrote. “He has brought the rule of law into disrepute, and debased honesty as the coin of the realm. He has engendered the suspicision that partisan politics trumps evenhanded law enforcement in the Department of Justice…. In sum, he has proven an unsuitable steward of the law and should resign for the good of the country.” If the Attorney General
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