It’s official — Alberto Gonzalez has resigned. The departure is one of several high-level resignations, including that of White House Political Director, Karl Rove and Deputy head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Bradley Schlozman. We have already seen the departure of many Justice Department officials such as chief of staff Kyle Sampson, White House liaison Monica Goodling and Deputy Director Paul McNulty.

During his tenure, was mired in controversy that culminated in the highly-unusual move of firing what appear to be now about a dozen state attorney generals for what appear to be their desire to not prosecute Democrats on flimsy evidence or their active prosecution of corrupt Republicans.

In the end, Gonzalez made the Justice Department a political wing of the White House which saw the department undermine the Voting Rights act and enable illegal spying on Americans.

Bush has not yet named a replacement but, one can rest assured that this White House is going to want a sycophant who is not going to look under an rocks to uncover the shady activities that have been going on at Justice. Let’s just hope that the tough questions will be asked of the next nominee that, obviously, weren’t asked during the Gonzalez confirmation.

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