Federal prosecutors are all appointed, not elected. Your point stands. Napoleon once said "the most powerful man in France is the juge d'instruction", the pros

Federal prosecutors are all appointed, not elected. Your point stands. Napoleon once said "the most powerful man in France is the juge d'instruction", the prosecuting judge (a peculiar French institution comparable to a prosecutor). Given how much Swartz achieved in his brutally short life, we can only imagine what we've lost with his passing.