• nutsack@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    i think the executive branches crazy override powers are by design. it needs to be quick to respond to issues of national security or something.

    i think it would be nice if there were a process to sue the crap out of parties which are abusing these mechanisms, though im not sure what that would look like.

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      10 months ago

      This is incorrect. The executive was never intended to be anywhere near as powerful as it has become. It has become increasingly powerful over the years for a suite of reasons, some perfectly legitimate (like the threat of nuclear war), but most because of cowardice in the legislative together with the conservative theory of the unitary presidency.

      There’s an entire body of literature in poly sci on the subject and how it can be addressed.

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      10 months ago

      Impeachment?

      It’s a bad solution for a number of reasons, but it’s the one we were given for punishing officials who abuse their power.