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byswillden ( 191260 ) writes:
Imagine what it would be like to have an efficient and hard-working executive branch, so that rather than making judges scratch their heads to figure out how to fit an old square peg into a new round hole, we could pass a new law that fits the modern context.
bygregstumph ( 442817 ) writes:
I'd prefer to imagine a legislative branch that did that.
byswillden ( 191260 ) writes:
I'd prefer to imagine a legislative branch that did that.
Bwahahaha!! Wow, what a mistake. Yeah, absolutely legislative. I wonder what I was thinking.
bynightflameauto ( 6607976 ) writes:
I'd prefer to imagine a legislative branch that did that.
Bwahahaha!! Wow, what a mistake. Yeah, absolutely legislative. I wonder what I was thinking.
To be fair to you, it's been so long since any of our three branches of federal government have actually done the job they were supposed to, it's all sort of become a giant blur of ineffectiveness when looking at it from a distance.
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byswillden ( 191260 ) writes:
I'd prefer to imagine a legislative branch that did that.
Bwahahaha!! Wow, what a mistake. Yeah, absolutely legislative. I wonder what I was thinking.
To be fair to you, it's been so long since any of our three branches of federal government have actually done the job they were supposed to, it's all sort of become a giant blur of ineffectiveness when looking at it from a distance.
Too true...
On a related note, I found Justice Sotomayor's discussion of this point in a recent case to be really enlightening. She pointed out that basically since the New Deal, all of the powerful executive agencies we've established have each taken on legislative and judicial roles in addition to executive roles, but from a separation of powers view this was actually fine. Not "fine" in the sense that it's the separation of powers framework defined by the Constitution, because it's clearly not, but "f
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