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Bush and Congress stepped in Sunday night because of he broken judicial system. They cannot go further.

To absolutely no effect, just like when the same thing was done by the Florida legislature and governor, even less. I agree that Congress has done what it can. But if there is nothing more the executives can do, then truly we do not need anyone but the Judicial Oligarchs to mandate taxes and budgets (as the New York courts have done for schools), wage the War on Terror (as it has done by unprecedentedly regulating prisoner of war issues) and dictate all our social norms for us. And that is but a few things the courts have done in taking over control of the other two branches of government.

I invite everyone to read Hamilton's Federalist #78. It says in part:

"Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments."

Clearly the implication is that part of the Executive's contemplated restraint on the "least dangerous" branch, the judiciary, is the threat not to enforce its judgments, which Andrew Jackson did in 1831. But when a habit of complete subservience and obsequiousness of all the other arms of government is cultivated over decades, even a body with no power exercises essentially absolute authority. That needs to end NOW.