The DOJ is not a constitutional entity, as some have stated elsewhere. The DOJ has birthing in an act of Congress 1870.
Congress could ‘easily’ make the DOJ independent from the biased President and Congress by transferring the DOJ to the judicial branch, with SCOTUS as their de facto boss.
May sound crazy, but the only way to get an independent DOJ?
I wish I could say the same, but four more years looks a distinct possibility, especially with the current Dem frontrunner.
Unhooking the DOJ from the Executive is not crazy. I have thought that it needs to be separate myself.
You can’t put it under the aegis of the Legislative and make the SCOTUS its boss though - those are two different branches and it violates the separation clause. But you could move it to the Judiciary branch altogether.
Not until we fix that lifetime-group-of-monarchs bit.
The way moscowmitch has stacked them, you’d have decades of them being able to manipulate things by ordering investigations and charges against political rivals, with no way to fix it with elections.
Sorry. My bad for the brain fart (just sold my beloved truck 
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Meant the judicial branch. Thanks.
Awwww - l feel ya. I have wanted a pickup for years and my husband won’t cooperate. I’m sorry you had to sell your truck.
@castor_troy - O we don’t give the DOJ lifetime appointments just because they are in the Judiciary and we don’t make the SCOTUS their boss either. They become a separate entity and it’s totally possible to draft enabling legislation that addresses the concerns you have and all the rest of the problems that have arisen from letting the Executive control that agency.
First Nixon, now Trump and Barr. Gotta make a change. It’s too dangerous the way it is.
Don’t disagree. The question is how to do it without empowering some other part with an inordinate amount of power. If you put it in the legislative, it’s subject to the same political influences, depending on who is in power. In the Judicial, the lifetime appointment of the overseers. On its own, whomever is in charge of it would wield more power than the president or congress.
This is one of the times I really don’t have an idea of how to fix what is clearly a big fucking problem.
I know it’s tricky as hell. There are problems any way you turn. hahahahahaha
Only clear solution is to simply declare @castor_troy supreme-dictator-for-life. I hear he promises to be gentle with the masses, so long as they don’t displease him.
Thanks for the offer. I think I’d just as soon see if we can entice Lord Ventinari to leave Ankh-Morpork to be Tyrant of America.
No offense.
Never did get into Pratchett… Spent plenty of time in Robert Jordan’s world, though.
Worth the wander over?
“Current Dem frontrunner” to me is the day-to-day expression of a volatile situation. That’s not a thing I know about life, any more than what the weather will be tomorrow. I mean the things I’ve learned about how human life works generally militate against a Trumplike person holding power for very long. He’s too incompetent, too much of an enemy-maker, too mentally ill to judge his assets and liabilities accurately, you get the idea. He’s Dumb Macbeth. And in Macbeth it rings true that he had a good run but it would inevitably start to crumble, slowly at first and then more rapidly.
To Pratchett? I love the man and I’m really grateful for all the fun and the joy and the laughs he has given me.
Yes, the man has a depth of understanding of human nature and the world in general that is hard to beat.
I’d start with Witches Abroad, personally, but that’s because I prefer the witch books. Or Good Omens, which while technically Gaiman and Pratchett, was about 90% Pratchett, according to Gaiman.
Yeah you can tell that when you read it.
I started with The Hogfather and it’s still one of my favorites. But it is the Christmas book so perhaps best read around then and I do quite often. hahahaha
We watch the movie every year at Christmas in my house.
Just a cautionary note: Cheney is still alive. Trump’s parents also lived to ripe old ages (93 and 85). He may be right about his “good genes,” in that respect at least.
You’d be surprised how long people can survive these days with outrageous levels of internal disease. My mother had multiple serious health problems and a long, long history of lousy lifestyle, but even when it came to multiple infections, sepsis, hospice and palliative oxygen at the end, her heart just would NOT stop beating for days and days. It was amazing.
Death is one of my very favorite characters.
She of “taxes are for the little people” fame? I didn’t and don’t have any problem with her prosecution. She was a tax cheat, period.
Martha Stewart for insider trading? There are at least arguable extenuations there.
Especially since trump’s time is quite limited due to the accelerating dementia. My guess is the RNC will try to prop him up medically until the dems have their candidate, then find someone they think will be the best to run against him. Not Pence of course.