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Old 05-28-2008, 12:58 PM   #27 (permalink)
Willravel
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
As for the judicial branch stopping a runaway executive? That's not their responsibility. It's the Senate's. They impeach all folks in the Executive branch that are impeachable.
Apparently not any more.

Our SCOTUS is broken. We've lost civil liberties, equal protection, free speech... we've got school segregation. It's basically impossible to sue big corporations before the SCOTUS.
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Exactly how to you propose selecting "independent" judges? By lottery? Election? It seems to me that you're proposing a very radical change that you haven't thought through.
If they're going to be partisan, they should be elected.
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