Sometimes judge have the last word. That's how it is. The executive branch is not God.
Neither is the Judicial branch, but to the LIBs and the Libertarians, the bench is GOD.
"The Executive branch is not God."
A fact indeed- but then neither is the Judicial branch even though they do think they are, and seem likely to keep on thinking that until God himself, takes the time to explain the facts of life to them.
Yes, exactly, they are not God nor is the judicial branch. In theory they should be co-equal but the framers always judged the judicial to be the weakest because the executive branch held the sword and the legislative branch held the purse strings.
Recently my favorite story has been the alledged response by Andrew Taylor regarding a SCOTUS decision: "Fine, let them enforce it". It would appear that the Republic survived President Andrews failure to bow to the judicial or, on second thought, maybe it didn't since our legislation is now written by (mostly) unelected judges and the executive and legislative branch fail to respond.
I don't blame the Bush's; this has been going on for about 60 years now but the question to anyone who thinks that perhaps the framers were something other than religious nutcase whack job Bible thumpers is how to we get the original balance back?
In my opinion appointing "our" judges replaces one flavor of tyrant with another, perhaps their rulings would be more to our liking, but still at odds with the intent of co-equal branches with our elected legislators writing laws.
Or do we even care any longer? Has the Constitution been in a persistent vegetative state for so long should it be put out of it's misery given that it has no quality of life?
If we do care how do we change it? Well, for starters perhaps we should suggested to our legislators that the funding for the judiciary be cut in half for a year and fire those that won't do it. First my guess is that there are not more than a handful of legislators that would even entertain the idea (mine won't, the only one that I know of that's favorable to the idea is Ron Paul) but if there's a better way I'm all ears because it's not going to happen on it's own.
neither should the judicial branch be
They are in practice, because the other two constantly give them the last word.
WELL NEITHER IS THE JUDICIAL BRANCH! They sure act like they are though, hence the problem.
Neither is the judicial branch, although by their actions you'd think the judges held that opinion of themselves. The exectutive branch has equal standing and a mandated constitution authority to carry out its duties, judges or no judges. Who is watching the watchers?