Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still cant speak it.

You may be less likely to pick on someone if you dont know whats in their briefcase or purse.

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she certainly showed no interests in having an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.