@volkris

The Senate only functions to place Judges and Congress can't even pass a budget.

The only check on executive power now are the courts, the final check and balance.

I'm surprised you missed this. Normally, you pro MAGA nonsense has an edge.

@RememberUsAlways No you're absolutely wrong about how that goes.

The courts were intentionally not given executive powers. They were intentionally not vested with any power to check the executive. These unelected judges are only able to issue opinions, and that's all by design. We don't want to give huge amounts of executive power to people that aren't accountable to election processes.

Instead the power is given to the legislative branch which can impeach and otherwise engage with the executive.

So no, by design the courts absolutely do not have any power to check the executive. Not only are they not the final check, but they're not empowered that way at all.

It's up to the people that we elect to Congress to act against the executive if they see fit.

It is so critical that Americans understand how the government is set up if they care about this kind of thing. And it is really a shame that so many don't understand how functions are distributed between the three branches.

@RememberUsAlways No not at all.

If we elected a wet paper towel that's what we get. Yay democracy.

The premise doesn't fall apart. We get what we vote for, so this is what we got.

It's how the system works. We should probably stop reelecting morons, but we do reelect morons, so I guess we like this.

@volkris

Fear drives the electorate and Republicans continue to use fear as a method of Governance.

Fear can depress the entire electorate if a criminal administration is allowed to control all the process.

@RememberUsAlways Right. But that doesn't change anything here.

We elect morons, and the reason we elect them is kind of secondary to the fact that we are, indeed, electing morons.

Personally I'm a lot more frustrated with the democratic representatives we reelected who are complicit with this administration. But that's the group we voted for, so this is what we get.

@volkris

You have to acknowledge gerrymandering as the reason "morons" are in "safe districts" and no longer fear the people who roll over every cycle or donate large sums of shadow corporate money through Citizens United.

Morons, describing a systemic problem, is a more fit discussion.

@RememberUsAlways people like to point to gerrymandering, but that explanation doesn't hold when Senate elections aren't subject to gerrymandering.

No, we choose these people. The representatives that fail us constantly get support from voters who campaign for them. Just everyday voters do actually elect these people.

Any day of the week congresspeople could act against the administration. They are empowered to do so. But we go out and vote for people who decide, meh, this is fine

We voters vest these folks with that authority, and that's how they use it, so here we are.

But maybe if we stopped letting them shift the blame to the courts we might someday demand that they use that authority differently.