If someone can't see something as obviously corrupt and illegal as the televised attempted coup called Russian gate there's no sense in discussing the anything about how the justice system is being used for political purposes...
Then we have illegal pardons from the lastest lesser of two evils..
Sad Sack of Poo really and nothing on the horizon to confirm any of it might get any better ...
Stay safe out there as it's really up to you...
Eagler
So the first is a prime example of the government being corrupt on the executive branch side, meaning it was the department of injustice that started that (operation "crossfire hurricane"), at the behest of the outgoing president.The only real involvement of the judicial system there was in the FISA court being mislead by falsified FISA warrant applications. Now, of course, congress was involved as well, sanctioning the Mueller investigation, a $28 million dollar two plus year waste of time. And ONE person was convicted of falsifying those applications, nothing else happened, despite the department of injustice being fully involved, up to and including both the ag and the director of the fbi.
Any pardon signed by an incompetent president is both illegal and invalid. Also executive branch. Now, there have also been some improper and ill advised pardons issued by the current administration. Such is often, if not nearly always the case. They're not necessarily illegal. But they are often detestable, at best.
But my problem with the judicial branch is more along the lines of obvious judicial misconduct and judicial activism. Where the executive branch has, by definition, what can be described as "discretion", to some degree, the judicial branch has no such discretion, as it is bound purely by the law and the Constitution. Thar's what separates the judicial branch, and makes it the check on the legislative and executive branches. It's not a matter of "like", "want", or "agree", with the judicial branch. It's a matter of the law, and whether the law agrees with the Constitution. Their
sole purpose is to uphold the Constitution, and apply the law, by discerning whether or not the law agrees with the Constitution. The judicial branch is never supposed to be a tool of either the executive branch or the legislative branch. They're the
CHECK on
BOTH of the other branches.
The judicial branch should have stopped much of what has gone wrong, with the citizens driving it. Unfortunately, more so lately, as witnessed by both Bork and Thomas, the judicial branch has been controlled by the executive and especially the legislative branch, because it allows them to attempt to use the judicial branch to accomplish what the executive and legislative branches are unable to, because the Constitution was designed specifically to prevent it. The judicial branch is now often an avenue of political expedience, as opposed to a check on the rest of the government.
Of course, then we get to the other part of activism, where the judicial system attempts social engineering by activism, rather than simply enforcing the law.
However, it is mostly a failure of us, the citizens, who have either been apathetic, in ignoring the wrongs of the government so long as they do not have severe enough deleterious effects on our lives, or been active in having the government act as a charity and an arbiter of "equity".
Again, too often, the turnout is 30%, people want to ignore and dislike the government, rather than pay attention and deal with it. The men who created our government intended for all of us to be truly educated, moral/religious, and actively engaged. Because they knew what would happen otherwise. The vast majority of us are none of the three. It happened. Unfortunately.
