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Judges don’t answer to the government. They can be impeached, but that effectively never happens.
by macintux 6y ago
Judges don’t answer to the government. They can be impeached, but that effectively never happens.
- baddox 6y agoSo they answer to no one?
- macintux 6y agoThey can be overruled by higher courts, and in some localities they’re forced to run for election.
- DetroitThrow 6y agoWe trust them to answer to SCOTUS, who we in turn trust to interpret the constitution that a majority of us have agreed to keep. Basically a group of people whose entire job is to interpret the actions in terms of law, constitution, and human rights - a marrying of theories on social contract, natural rights, and separation of powers that we've seen emulated (and improved upon) across the free world :) Overall, I particularly enjoy this system over one that is accountable to a single entity.