Should Independent Justices Oversee the President?

Question

The Constitution directs each branch to CHECK AND BALANCE the another two branches of government. Those checks must be performed on-the-spot, in real-time, not after the fact years later. Today, technology makes that possible, easy, and safe.

To provide America's taxpayers with perfect accountability on the part of the president, all the president's official oral communications can be digitally recorded by three separate recorders to make tampering impossible, and provide Congress with the truth, when it investigates misconduct.

For this, the Constituion will need to be AMENDED

The Watergate hearings found President Nixon guilty of bribery, perjury, obstruction of justice, and using the CIA to work for his re-election. Other U.S. presidents have also violated the Constitution. Presidents are "human beings", imperfect, fallible, and self-interested. No real-time judicial oversight of the president is dangerous.

When a president needs to circumvent laws, he must get permission.

Answer 1

Please read the first few articles of the US Constitution, or look at a junior high school level civics book. The system of checks and balances is in place and the press has taken on the duty of watchdog. Take a look at any of the news networks or on the web. The constitution is too important to amend it too often!

Answer 2

My answer to your question is no. Just because we are seeing abuses by the current executive branch does not mean that we should change the Constitution to give one branch of the government more power than the other. In my eyes, that is just begging for more problems. The checks and balances is a good system; we just have to make sure that someone doesn't allow members of the executive or legislative (or even judicial) branches to make rules that allow them to circumvent the authority of the others.
Clearly, the executive branch has overextended itself, with the help of a cooperative Congress. If the President has done something truly in violation fo the law (and it appears that Bush did) or refuses to follow the law (continuing to deny detainees their legal rights), there is a cure for such behavior: it is called an impeachment.
Do not be so quick to over-react and call for Constitutional amendments, my friend. This is what the Republican Party minority does, calling for anti-gay marriage or falg-burning amendments. They fail to realize that a soceity is better for having the choice of doing one thing or another. Remove choice, and you end up with a dictatorship (which is what Bush admitted to wanting back when he was running for President in 2000).

Answer 3

The biggest checks and balances are irate people and the news media. The "government" nevers seems to do their job no matter what branch!

Answer 4

i think the easily numbers given by utilising this "independant guy or woman" would not accept as true with the lies of Obama nor his administration. something that is going against the Obama administration looks to be hit with a "gag", or "cuffs", or firings, or............the record keeps enlarging would not it. i've got faith it is 23T$'s AND becoming. Obama and his "henchmen" attack all and sundry, something, that would teach his figures fake. I call that a dictator management. sure we because of the fact the taxpayer could call for an entire scale audit. I accept as true with Ron Paul.

Answer 5

We do have checks and balance in the law - it's just all brances of the government are conservatives now. Vote for change!

Answer 6

How can a person be given permission to circumvent a law?

Answer 7

Go take a civics class... we already do have checks and balances... Judicial branch, Legislative branch, and Executive branch...

But thanks for the two points anyways...

Answer 8

We have checks and balances but they are being ignored.

Answer 9

go tack a civics class

Answer 10

we already have a check and balance system....but thanks for the 2 points.....