• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    10 days ago

    The DOJ is subordinate to the Judiciary

    Maybe crack open a book on US government or read an encyclopedia article: Department of Justice is department of the executive branch. Historically, they started out as the federal government’s attorneys/prosecutors.

    The judicial branch only has the federal courts, its judges, its administrators.

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      Maybe crack open a dictionary and understand what subordinate means.

      If the Judicial Branch is equal to Executive, then any subordinate of the Executive is subordinate to the Judiciary.

      Y’all gotta learn more.

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            Checks & balances don’t mean “any subordinate of the Executive is subordinate to the Judiciary”: they’re still separate/independent branches with limited powers to keep each other in check. It’s called separation of powers.

            Checks by the judicial branch are scant: pretty much declare legislation & executive actions unconstitutional. It’s powerless to enforce. Prosecutorial discretion remains with the prosecutor.

            The Department of Justice is under the executive branch: quit willfully ignoring that/pretending that means anything else. We get the government we have, not the government as we wish it were.

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              It LITERALLY means that a subordinate anything of any branch of government is just that. SUB-waitforit-ORDINATE. The words are right there in the link I sent you.

              Stop trolling and start learning instead of spreading you absolutely insane and uneducated crap here.

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                Stop trolling and start learning instead of spreading you absolutely insane and uneducated crap here.

                Are you referring to yourself?

                Maybe you need to whip out a dictionary or go back to lower education & not sleep through US civics/government.

                The words are right there in the link I sent you.

                subordinate is nowhere on that page: did you hallucinate? Try quoting it.