Chief Justice John Roberts touted the independence of the federal judiciary as a “counter-majoritarian check” and urged Americans rattled by partisan politics to keep faith with the Constitution in an annual report Wednesday that steered clear of direct discussion of modern controversies.
Roberts’ history-heavy statement made no mention of Donald Trump, nor the intense conflict that has cropped up between federal courts and the White House since his second inauguration nearly a year ago.
Trump has questioned the legitimacy of courts that paused his policies and called for the impeachment of judges who ruled against him.
Ya know it’s kinda funny that I’m finding I agree with Justice Roberts, I think it would be great for the Judiciary to be a ‘separate but equal’ “branch” of our government. No, really, this is a great idea. Like we could have like maybe three, separate but equal branches, maybe this is a stretch, but we could call them, umm, The Judiciary, The Legislative, and the Executive Branches.
What if each of them actually did their job? And only their job? Or am I being too fantastical?
And maybe that “separate but equal” can serve as a check and balance to keep any branch from abusing their power …. Or is that off the deep end?
That sounds great! The only way I could envision it failing is if one branch gave another outsized power in a partisan bid, while another refused to be a check on other branches… Boy, that would fly in the face of the Constitution and introduce a fundamental crisis for our country…
Yep, we got oodles of that going on, right now. :-(
lol that’s great