• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    10 days ago

    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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      10 days ago

      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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        10 days ago

        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.