A Prime Example of the Unreliability of the Checks and Balances

[$ecular#eckler]

The title of this article is an example of the incalculability of the balance of power. If the balance cannot be calibrated, then the checks on power cannot be reliable.

In a striking dynamic of the Trump era, analysts say, the judicial and legislative branches have been steadily transferring many of their powers to the executive — or at least acquiescing in the transfers. That has shaken up a system that depends on the three branches jostling sharply as each jealously guards its own prerogatives, many critics contend.

“When the constitutional framers designed a system of checks and balances, they didn’t mean a system where Congress and the Supreme Court give the president a blank check,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland). “That’s not the kind of check they had in mind. … It was intended to create friction among the three branches to produce balance.”

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The problem is not because the establishment of justice is a balanced altruistic design that is vulnerable to nefarious politicians, bureaucrats, pundits, and activists. The problem is that the checks and balances cannot be reliably constructed for a three-branch government, and that adversely affects everything. It is the proverbial box of rules that forms our understanding of the system of justice.

There is no calibration standard for measuring or comprehending the balance of government powers. “Power grab,” is the scholars’ unwitting confirmation of this inadequacy and, “Co-equal branches,” is another patronizing ideal that hides the fact that they have never properly critiqued the Three-part Separation Theory.

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[Oddball]

What if I told you that your idiotic rewrite of the Constitution (which is never ever going to happen), will be written by the same flawed humans who have spent the last 200+ years circumventing and usurping the original article?

 

[JGalt]

In a striking dynamic of the Trump era, analysts say, the judicial and legislative branches have been steadily transferring many of their powers to the executive — or at least acquiescing in the transfers.

That's hogwash. In case you haven't noticed, members of the judicial branch are the ones overstepping their boundaries by issuing injunctions against the executive branch, namely President Trump. There have been several recent rulings where lower court judges have been smacked down by the Supreme Court, for trying to usurp the power of the executive branch.

 

[1srelluc]

LOL....Just watch The Big Short if you want to see how "checks and balances" failed.

You basically had Goldman Sachs running the financial side of both the Clinton and Bush administrations....And they prevailed with the help of a Dem Congress to bail them out when things went south.

The people spoke with a resounding NO to the bailout and the first bail-out vote failed. Then the dems/RINOs/banks regrouped and they voted to tell The People to go **** themselves.


May as well put power in the hands of the executive because congress is well nigh useless.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

LOL....Just watch The Big Short if you want to see how "checks and balances" failed.

You basically had Goldman Sachs running the financial side of both the Clinton and Bush administrations....And they prevailed with the help of a Dem Congress to bail them out when things went south.

The people spoke with a resounding NO to the bailout and the first bail-out vote failed. Then the dems/RINOs/banks regrouped and they voted to tell The People to go **** themselves.


May as well put power in the hands of the executive because congress is well nigh useless.

The Ringleader Brothers' Burn'em and Bailout Circus