1. Obama appointed her, and by many metrics she is doing a good job.
2. The DOJ under Holder is anything but Liberal in it's outlook, a DOJ that's onboard with killing civilians who are American citizens without requiring even a closed hearing from a judge does not care what you think about prosecutorial overreach.
3. Using outsize threats and the power of indictment to coerce defendants into pleading out is policy, and goes well beyond an individual D.A.'s practices in a given case.
That said; the purpose of this petition is to raise embarrassing questions in a way that demands an answer.
Justice in this country should aspire to be more than "the shadow cast by the powerful upon the weak".
note: I'm aware that I should have had someone else proofread the text and that my misedit of the first paragraph is now unfixable.
Technically, President Obama has the power to install and remove U.S. attorneys at his discretion. Should we start a petition asking him to resign, too?