Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons?

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• bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Although I do find it strange that there is no check on the judiciary.

  Like, it’s supposed to be checks and balances, but what stops the judges from passing an unjust law?

  Judges have a lifetime appointment in the Supreme Court. The only way they can be removed is by all of Congress coming together and choosing to impeach one of them, and that takes years when Congress is actually functioning.

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  • foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    …but what stops the judges from passing an unjust law?..

    Well, ostensibly it’s congress that passes the laws and the courts may say how they are interpreted or implemented.

    If the courts are interpreting the laws against what the authors of the law intended, it is up to congress to write laws that are better and pass constitutional muster without question…

    We’re at the point we are because of poorly written laws that have led to loopholes and poor implementation being taken advantage of.

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  • SippyCup@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They have no authority to enforce any law. And they have no legislative powers.

    Rulings have been ignored multiple times because the judiciary just has no means to enforce what the executive branch refuses to enforce

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    technically the check for judicial was supposed to be a mix between it being a life position and the legislative branches impeachment/revocal process. The court was supposed to be an impartial non-political, but it’s been slowly slipping into a very heavily politically motivated group.

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• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It wasn’t the question.

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