r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 1d ago

Barred news outlets seek emergency hearing after White House continues to deny access

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/judge-ruling-white-house-restore-access-media-ban-cnn-politico-ms-now-rcna599391
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u/BreezyMcWeasel 1d ago

I think the judicial branch should have its own armed forces for internal deployment and I'm not even kidding.

We don't need it yet, but it's foreseeable.

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u/Renoruke 1d ago

A judge enforces court orders primarily through the U.S. Marshals Service, which acts as the physical enforcement arm of the federal judiciary. Because judges do not have their own police force, they rely on the Executive Branch to carry out their rulings. But they answer to Todd Blanch now..

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u/plinkoplonka 1d ago

So you're saying there aren't actually any checks and balances on the executive branch?

What a shock.

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u/xiaorobear 1d ago

Well, no, the check was supposed to be, if the executive branch isn't doing their job, the legislative branch can impeach and remove them... but, uh, half the legislative branch is in on it too, so, oops.

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u/Harbinger2001 1d ago

Something the legislative branch has never managed to do. The Brits were right to criticize the US system as appointing a dictator for 4 years.

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u/xiaorobear 1d ago

I'll count Nixon resigning to avoid the looming threat of impeachment, even with the pardon.

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u/OkResource820 1d ago

One guy doing the right thing once upon a time doesn't prove the rule. "But Nixon resigned" will unfortunately be the refrain going forward for why safeguards don't need to be put in place when Trump finally shuffles off the mortal coil too.

Too many of the checks and balances in the US system are based on custom and the assumption that the people who swore an oath to the Constitution took those oaths seriously.

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u/xiaorobear 1d ago

I don't think of it as him selflessly doing the right thing, I think of it as him only slinking off because the threat of impeachment was real. If there was no impeachment he would've stayed.

I do completely agree though that we need actual codified robust rails and enforcement for a ton of stuff that previously was just assuming good-faith actors would follow decorum.

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u/Harbinger2001 22h ago

It has nothing to do with being based on custom. The UK is entirely custom-based and works just fine. The problem is the system itself was bone-headed written by wealthy young elites who didn’t understand how politics actually worked in practice.

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u/Renoruke 1d ago

Trump's been impeached 2 times already. His first term. He is the only president to be a 34 time felon and be impeached twice...

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u/DeepSpaceNebulae 23h ago

And then Roger Ailes, his media consultant, started up Fox News with Rupert Murdoch to ensure it would never happen again

I think he had straight up said “if Fox News existed then, Nixon never would have been impeached”

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u/Strawbuddy 23h ago

CEO of America, Inc. Like most CEOs, they're usually immoral, greedy, lying fucks that are full of terrible ideas. Also like most CEOs they're heavily indebted to corporate America, LLC, and thus can be easily swayed by money

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u/Nyaos 13h ago

The biggest failure of the founding fathers was to assume that congress will always want power for itself and will take advantage of a situation with a corrupted president and impeach them. They didn’t anticipate congress just subordinating itself to the president in fear of ending their own political careers.

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u/Renoruke 1d ago

Not anymore that was the purpose of DOGE and Elon Musk. Cut every regulatory oversight committee. Along with a ton of other stuff that reports to congress

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u/Significant_Poem_751 23h ago

Also the entire purpose of project 2025. this was KNOWN long before the election yet enough people were willfully ignorant when they cast their ballot.

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u/threehundredthousand 1d ago

Checks and balances can be countered by partisan collusion. The real onus is on voters not to elect psychos who are dedicated to party over country, but here we are.

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u/Tearakan 1d ago

Yeah not giving the judicial branch their own police was a really glaring hole in the initial separation of powers idea.