Title: Why is the Department of Justice under the Executive rather than the Judicial branch of government? - Quora
Headings: Why is the Department of Justice under the Executive rather than the Judicial branch of government?
Why is the Department of Justice under the Executive rather than the Judicial branch of government?
Content: The DOJ for its first ninety years was not under the executive but under Congress and advised Congress and at times, the President. At that time, Congress people were primarily not lawyers. It is only recently that more lawyers than ever belong to Congress, and when lawyers write laws they make a terrible mess of it, probably so other lawyers can get their clients off the hook by interpreting vague and poorly written laws in their client’s favor. What concerns me is that the Republicons are scraping the bottom of the barrel from where their candidates are emerging, types with lall kinds of unsavory backgrounds -
With the office of the president using the Attorney General to go after his political rivals, it is time the Judiciary Act be rescinded and the DOJ be placed back under the direction of Congress, under the aegis of the Rules and Financing Committee, but with its offices in the White House to keep an eye on that branch until a Constitutional Convention can be convened or two thirds of the House and Senate can abolish the Executive Branch or move the imperial presidency back into the Congress like the first eight presidents before George Washington. Sponsored by USAFacts
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For the same reason that municipal police departments and county sheriffs offices are not a part of the court systems. The enforcement of laws can result in the state charging an individual with violating the laws that were written by the legislature, enforced by the executive and the judicial branch is a separate entity that is tasked with judging the case. If law enforcement were a part of the judiciary, then the link between being charged and being convicted would have little to no separation. In the US, it is considered to be quite important that the Courts, the justice system, and the deter
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For the same reason that municipal police departments and county sheriffs offices are not a part of the court systems.