Do you believe in an accountability law which would make all judicial activists accountable for their legal decisions?
http://www.jail4judges.org
2007-04-04 08:20:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
The judicial branch is limited by the other branches that can put them into and take them out of office. The design of our system is a three way check and balance and the only real way for one to become corrupt is for the other two to allow it.
Having a small group of randomly selected people of unknown integrity deciding whether or not a judge has ruled properly and whether or not that judge should stay in office is completely insane in my opinion. It would be like randomly selecting people to run congress instead of having a vote. Imagine the tweak head fighting with the Christian conservative over whether or not adultery was wrong enough to be illegal.
Total insanity.
2007-04-04 08:31:29 · answer #1 · answered by Memnoch 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There are already procedures in place to investigate and prosecute abuses of power from the bench. They are working fine.
This is a part of the "legislating from the bench" malarkey the Republicans are chanting.
What we need is a President that doesn't legislate from the Oval Office via signing statements and firing prosecutors.
2007-04-04 15:29:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, they seek to undermine Judicial Independence IMHO.
2007-04-04 15:24:08 · answer #3 · answered by ck4829 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would force them to actually "do their homework" before each case. Oh my!! What a revolutionary idea :)
2007-04-04 16:02:49 · answer #4 · answered by Suze 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
absolutely not.
2007-04-04 15:24:05 · answer #5 · answered by charlie_the_carpenter 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋