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To: SJackson
There is some kind of weakness revealed in the system in that the only legal enforcement arm of the US government is in the executive branch. When that's the branch committing criminal acts, then it's a 'fox/henhouse' affair.

There should be some kind of enforcement possible separately for House, Senate, and Judiciary. It would take some thought how to properly arrange that, but it's foolish to have an obvious crime committed and no way to pursue it.

10 posted on 06/25/2014 5:45:15 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins
What option is there? The Founders warned us our freedom could easily be lost. Difficult to fight a corrupt Justice Department, which is what we have.

I've read suggestions that the House (and Senate) Sergeant at Arms might well have police powers beyond the immediate vicinity of the House, based on it's history in English common law, a history that extends back to Rome. I've been told that in the face of Justices refusal to enforce the law, the SAA could enforce the contempt citation against Lois Lerner, or our esteemed Attorney General. Don't know if the House has a jail, The likelihood of the House testing this is zero. But it is possible.

Not going to happen, unless the House recruits it's Sergeant at Arms from the military. With legitimate enforcement power. Not a court in the nation you can treat with contempt without looking at the world through bars.

27 posted on 06/25/2014 4:01:54 PM PDT by SJackson (wish I had known more firsthand about...problems of American businesspeople as a Senator G McGovern)
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To: xzins
When that's the branch committing criminal acts, then it's a 'fox/henhouse' affair. There should be some kind of enforcement possible separately for House, Senate, and Judiciary.

There is. It's called impeachment in the House, and conviction in the Senate with the Chief Justice presiding.

Now, on the matter of the will to do that, others at FR has suggested that we have moved away from a three co-equal branches system to a two-party system. This means that checks and balances between the branches no longer work, because party loyalty decides who is guilty and who is not at any given moment.

What is criminal today is not criminal tomorrow, depending on whose party is in control. The three branches are no longer relevant.

-PJ

35 posted on 06/25/2014 5:48:43 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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