U.S. Ruled by Executive, Legislative, Judicial Branches… and Richard Cordray

The American Spectator ^ | June 22, 2017 | Jon Cassidy

[Cheerio]

A despotism in our midst no one can do anything about, evidently.

Could Congress create a fourth branch of government?

Maybe break off a piece of what the executive branch handles now — commerce, say, or agriculture, or maybe even defense — and create a new office supported by its own dedicated tax stream and the authority to levy penalties? The president could still appoint this officer — I think prince-bishop has a nice ring to it — but wouldn’t be able to remove His Excellency absent extraordinary factual circumstances.

Maybe we could expect the prince-bishop to decree exile for certain troublemakers, or to restore forjugement, as our system came to embrace anachronism.

We could have a fifth and a sixth branch. Or why not 20 branches? Actually, Texas already has something like this — an executive branch fractured into tiny independent jurisdictions, and the results are about as exciting as Liechtenstein.

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is something like a new branch of government, only former Solicitor General Ted Olson doesn’t call it the fourth branch. He says the administrative commissions invented during the New Deal represent the fourth branch, and that the CFPB is something even further from our original Constitutional order. Something close to the despotisms of old, I’d say.

[laweeks]

Could Congress create a fourth branch of government

We already have a fourth branch of government: any department that creates regulations which no one approved.

[Grimmy]

I’d be a whole lot more cost effective if we just utilized the tool allowed us in The Constitution specifically for stomping the totalitarianism out of an out of control government.

[Phlap]

Barry is a great campaigner. Just ask him and he will tell you. lol

But seriously, he couldn't do any worse than Nancy, could he?

[Phlap]

Ever since my masochistic baby went and left me, I’ve got nothing to punch but the clock.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Could Congress create a fourth branch of government? Maybe break off a piece of what the executive branch handles now — commerce, say, or agriculture, or maybe even defense — and create a new office supported by its own dedicated tax stream and the authority to levy penalties?

It's unconstitutional but they have already done that.

It's called the IRS.

[Whenifhow]

Thanks for posting. Cordray is bad news. According to the article, there are few reasons to dismiss him, although at the end of the article it seemed like he was being discriminatory.

[Monorprise]

At the state level the executive branch can be effectively and accountability be fractured into separate dedicated elected officials for each area.

We have in most states Separately elected Attorney generals.
Separately elected education department head.
We also separate elected Land commissioner(for collecting royalty on western state lands).

All elected specifically by the people for their respective policies in their respective area of expertise.

Only in Washington do we have to elect one President, who chooses all theses people and thus for better or worse makes all theses policies. I’m sorry but if you think the President can’t obstruct or interfere with his employee’s activities your crazy.

But if you think that is a good idea to create an executive employee unaccountable to elected officials, your even more crazy. That’s called a dictator and they tend to do even more crazy dictatorial stuff on their own initiative than the federal employees in black robes have done in response to other people’s initiative.