As much as I’d love to see little donnie charged with everything in the books…
Putting enforcement under the purview of the branch primarily charged with interpreting the laws gives a rather perverse incentive to see their own prosecutors succeed and as such interpret things to accomplish that goal. It’s bad enough having lifetime scotus appointments by a president extending their influence beyond their term, putting prosecution in that same branch’s watch could secure a dictator-in-abstentia spot pretty quick.
Well, moving it would require either an amendment or a new constitution, so you fix that problem with term limits and greater checks and balances on the Judicial.
The Court has always had a problem with enforcement:
As much as I’d love to see little donnie charged with everything in the books…
Putting enforcement under the purview of the branch primarily charged with interpreting the laws gives a rather perverse incentive to see their own prosecutors succeed and as such interpret things to accomplish that goal. It’s bad enough having lifetime scotus appointments by a president extending their influence beyond their term, putting prosecution in that same branch’s watch could secure a dictator-in-abstentia spot pretty quick.
Well, moving it would require either an amendment or a new constitution, so you fix that problem with term limits and greater checks and balances on the Judicial.
The Court has always had a problem with enforcement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia