In the week when our President fired the Attorney General amidst speculation that her sin was failure to more aggressively prosecute his political enemies, it’s worth looking back on a remarkable speech from April 1940 given by Attorney General (and later Supreme Court Justice) Robert H. Jackson appropriately titled The Federal Prosecutor. Hat tip to Professor John Q Barrett, Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law at St John’s ,who maintains thejacksonlist and shared the speech with subscribers.