It's always difficult, in terms of the word “practical”. From the perspective of the Department of Justice, this isn't changing the practice that's been in place of ensuring that decisions around prosecution are isolated from political influence. This is merely taking that a step further and putting it, if you will, out in the daylight, in that it's now a transparent separation of those functions, whereas before it was done within the walls of the Department of Justice and that separation was maintained as a result of practices that we had developed.
On May 4th, 2006. See this statement in context.