It's perfectly legitimate under the Constitution for the Legislative branch to "threaten" judges. After all, all of the courts other than the Supreme Court were established by Congress (Article 1, Section 8 and Article 3, Section 1, who also controls their budgets. If Congress can establish a court, it can also eliminate it. If judges go too far, Congress can cut their budgets.
That's what is meant by checks and balances - no one branch of government is allowed power that can't be limited by the other branches. Congress can pass a law, but the President can veto it. Congress can, with a supermajority, override the veto. The Supreme Court can rule the law unconstitutional, but Congress can pass a constitutional amendment (requires a supermajority in Congress and approval by 3/4ths of the states to ratify). The president can appoint judges but they have be approved by the Senate. It's a system that was deliberately designed to be inefficient (and it succeeded wonderfully!) in order to limit the power of government.
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Check Article 1, Section 8
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- What liberals really want
- The attack on the judiciary goes on.
- re: The attack on the judiciary goes on.
- Checks and balances applies to judges, too
- Here's the problem: "done other things that large segments of the public disagree with"
- Alternative : pass better laws (n/t)
- re: What liberals really want
- The attack on the judiciary goes on.