Comment on What would happen if the Supreme Court sent a US Marshall to arrest a member of the executive branch?

vvilld@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Wouldn’t ever even come to that, at least not under the current Trump administration.

Yes, the US Marshall Service is technically the enforcement arm of the judiciary, but they’re under the Department of Justice and answer directly to the US Attorney General. The DoJ is part of the Executive Branch and the AG is a member of the Cabinet appointed by the President. The current AG is Pam Bondi, who is a VERY close Trump ally who’s been working for him in various ways as a lawyer since at least 2019.

The Supreme Court doesn’t order the Marshall Service to do anything. They send a request to the AG, who then gives orders to the Marshall Service. Even under previous administrations it would have been incredibly difficult to imagine the circumstance where the AG would order the Marshalls to arrest a member of the Executive Branch, and it’s just never going to happen under Trump.

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