• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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        Checks & balances don’t mean “any subordinate of the Executive is subordinate to the Judiciary”: they’re still separate/independent branches with limited powers to keep each other in check. It’s called separation of powers.

        Checks by the judicial branch are scant: pretty much declare legislation & executive actions unconstitutional. It’s powerless to enforce. Prosecutorial discretion remains with the prosecutor.

        The Department of Justice is under the executive branch: quit willfully ignoring that/pretending that means anything else. We get the government we have, not the government as we wish it were.

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          10 days ago

          It LITERALLY means that a subordinate anything of any branch of government is just that. SUB-waitforit-ORDINATE. The words are right there in the link I sent you.

          Stop trolling and start learning instead of spreading you absolutely insane and uneducated crap here.

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            10 days ago

            Stop trolling and start learning instead of spreading you absolutely insane and uneducated crap here.

            Are you referring to yourself?

            Maybe you need to whip out a dictionary or go back to lower education & not sleep through US civics/government.

            The words are right there in the link I sent you.

            subordinate is nowhere on that page: did you hallucinate? Try quoting it.