The world’s largest association of historians is suing the Trump administration over a recent effort to justify the president keeping his official records rather than turning them over to the National Archives.
Last week, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel issued an advisory opinion that stated Trump “need not further comply” with the decades-old law governing the handover of presidential records for public preservation after a president leaves office.
It wasn’t until this current administration that I discovered the DoJ weren’t actually part of the judiciary, and were actually just the President’s personal attack dogs
More modern democracies like Taiwan have 5 branches of government because thing like the DoJ is just too powerful to be part of another branch.
Our departmental naming scheme was lifted from 1984.
At least the department of war is accurately named now.
i mean it makes sense for how our courts currently work: a combined judiciary and prosecutorial branch would break the adversarial system