OK: why do we have a judiciary?

[MannyGoldstein]

Why bother?

[gratuitous]

1. To adjudicate business disputes, silly!

And to exonerate our Galtian overlords when the rabble get too uppity.

[elleng]

2. To referee

[teddy51]

3. How many times did President Obama make the statement during his 2008

campaign, that we are a Nation of Laws? Wonder how killing someone with out due process fits that description? To be clear, I am not happy with him deciding to carry out killings of individuals that he determines alone, are guilty.

[malaise]

4. Citizens United

That's why

[valerief]

5. To be bought and paid for and pass judgment on unjust laws written by whore legislators. nt

[treestar]

6. You mean if we can't apply it to terrorists abroad

then we may as well abandon it for all purposes?

[Cherchez la Femme]

7. Seems like someone waved his magic wand & *poof*

no more extra-Constitutional problem.

So it CAN be done.
Now how about that? :crazy:

[gkhouston]

9. Corporations are terrorists.

There, someone said it, so it must be true. Go get 'em, Mr. President!

[AngkorWot]

8. Why do we have an executive branch?

The terrorists are just going to show up in court?

[MannyGoldstein]

10. Was al-Awlaki indicted? nt

[AngkorWot]

11. Tried in absentia, IIRC.

[MannyGoldstein]

12. Link?

Thanks.

[mmonk]

13. Under the new order since the coup in 2000 AD, the judiciary serves

the king, er, president.

[lumberjack_jeff]

14. We need someone to place the crown on the kings head. n/t

[provis99]

15. President Andrew Jackson asked himself the same thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_tears

[Tesha]

16. To add a fig-leaf of righteousness to the current goings-on. (NT)

[Umbral]

17. That's easy, to exonerate the rich and persecute the poor, duh. nt

[jberryhill]

18. To try suspects who can be caught or surrender

But deadly criminals at large who are neither of these run a big risk.