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Would you support Trump if he ignored an SC decision?

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Although Jackson is widely quoted as saying, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it,”
His actual words to Brigadier General John Coffee were: “The decision of the supreme court has fell still born, and they find that it cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate.
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Garrison, Tim. "Worcester v. Georgia." New Georgia Encyclopedia, last modified Feb 20, 2018. Worcester v. Georgia - New Georgia Encyclopedia

Now, the decision should have freed Worchester. Georgia did not release him even after the Court ruled.
Worchester finally accepted a pardon in 1833.

So Jackson did not enforce that ruling. It was more than just "ignoring" as it may refer to releasing Worchester.
That is the Presidents job.
 
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My statement doesn't contradict #4.
Of course it did.
4) If the Democrats didn't want to impeach Biden for ignoring the Supreme Court, then the Republicans shouldn't impeach Trump if he ignores the Supreme Court. Equal treatment.
So you literally said that if Biden ignored the SC, which you say he did, then if Trump ignores the SC he shouldn't be impeached. That's plain enough.
In theory, I would agree with you that if a President-any President-ignores the Supreme Court, then they should be impeached.
And now you are saying that if Trump ignores the SC he should be impeached. And that's plain enough.

Those two statements say exactly the opposite of each other.
 
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I was incorrect earlier when I said, "It's not that simple." Actually, it's not that convoluted.

The police are a department of the Executive Branch which executes the laws passed by the Legislature. That means the police work directly for the president, mayor, or city manager. Pursuant to that activity, they may detain persons suspected of crimes and deliver them to the criminal justice system. The police have many more activities in maintaining public order other than apprehending criminals. Notice that the police do not require a court order or a warrant or anything from the court system for such activity. All of that is by direction of the Executive.

In certain specific circumstances, police activities necessarily infringe upon the 4th Amendment. Those specific cases require, in effect, "Two-step Authorization"-- a warrant from the court to carry out that infringement. The police need nothing from the Court to carry out their duties except where infringement of the 4th Amendment is in question.

When the Court does have need of an armed force to carry out court orders (notice: court orders may be pursuant to legislation but are not legislation), they have at their disposal the US Marshals at the federal level and county sheriffs at local levels.

Cases: The Supreme Court rules that racial segregation is illegal in the particular case of a little girl and a local school. A particular municipality refuses to recognize the ruling. The Court orders US Marshals to accompany the little girl into the school. A district court orders the eviction of a tenant from a rented residence. A deputy sheriff is dispatched to implement the eviction. The Court orders a convicted suspect remanded to prison; the prisoner escapes. Sheriffs and US Marshals have the primary duty to re-apprehend the convict.

This is not to say there is never coordination and mutual support between police and sheriffs, however. In the last case above, police may apprehend the convict but then turn him over to sheriffs or US Marshals.

Customs and Border Patrol are definitely not under the jurisdiction of the military, they are separate from the military although also under control of the President.
 
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The police are a department of the Executive Branch which executes the laws passed by the Legislature. That means the police work directly for the president, mayor, or city manager.
Police are Officers of the Court.
The term most frequently refers to judges , clerks , court personnel, and police officers.

 
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Thats just a police officers responsibility when in the court setting.

Their position generally is within the executive branch of local / state / federal govt, as RD has pointed out. The courts dont run police depts. The city executives do.

FBI is an exec branch function federally, not judicial branch.
 
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Their position generally is within the executive branch of local / state / federal govt, as RD has pointed out. The courts dont run police depts. The city executives do.
The Judiciary Act of 1789 defined Federal Marshals as Officers of the Court

The only instance I can remember of an Executive "running the police department" was George Wallace.

The legislative and Executive branch funds the police as a department same as Legislatures fund the Courts.
Basically, your argument would define the Judiciary as an agency , subordinate to the Executive, not an independant Branch.
 
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The Judiciary Act of 1789 defined Federal Marshals as Officers of the Court
I was talking about police and FBI. I think federal marshals are a different thing.
The only instance I can remember of an elected official "running the police department" was George Wallace.
The FBI is basically run by the exec branch. The pres chooses its leadership and the bureau reports ultimately to the pres. I don't see how you could contest this.
The legislative and Executive branch funds, organizes and pays the police as a department same as those branches fund do the Courts.
Basically, that argument would include the Judicial as a Branch of the Executive, not an independant branch.
Sure all 3 branches are somewhat interconnected. They have to be - they are parts of the same government after all. Legislative decides funding level. Exec holds the money and writes the checks. That doesnt mean we cant recognize the important ways they were intended to be independent and co-equal.
 
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The FBI is basically run by the exec branch. The pres chooses its leadership and the bureau reports ultimately to the pres. I don't see how you could contest this.
The FBI is a dual agency
Enforcing US law requires an agent to have cause (warrant) remand detainees to custody of Court and appear in Court, so it is as an Officer of the Court

The agency is also an intelligence agency, in conjuction with the CIA. That is the Executive (commander in chief of militaray)

The reason the Border Patrol, Customs, CIA, some FBI functions are Executive is because all foriegn relations are subject to US military enforcement, ultimately. The borders are controlled by the military, except the US has created an agency that performs the same functons. If it walks like a duck...
 
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I was talking about police and FBI. I think federal marshals are a different thing.
The federal courts run the US Marshals. Even if you go back to the Old West, the county sheriffs worked for the county judges, the US Marshals worked for the federal judges. Where they had police departments (generally larger cities), they worked for the mayors.
 
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The FBI is a dual agency
Enforcing US law requires an agent to have cause (warrant) remand detainees to custody of Court and appear in Court, so it is as an Officer of the Court
Only where the FBI must intentionally infringe on a person's 4th Amendment rights. It's always an infringement while a person is still only a suspect, and a police agency requires prior judicial approval to make that infringement. It takes two branches of government to legally infringe the 4th Amendment...effectively, "Two-step Authorization." If a person is already in the judicial system, then the judicial system alone can handle it...thus sheriffs and marshals.
 
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Only where the FBI must intentionally infringe on a person's 4th Amendment rights

"as well as" indicates dual.
FBI are Officers of the Courts
as well as
National Security Agents for the Executive.
 
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Who does The FBI director answer to? Donald Trump or John Roberts? Which one of them can fire the FBI director?

Thats tells you where the FBI fits in the giant org chart of US govt.
 
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Without respect for the rule of law we are barbarians. And we have already crossed that Rubicon.
 
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Biden actually did that and who called for his impeachment?
 
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You can go back and review the Biden era threads on that.

Now we're in the Trump era and the question is about him.
Well now the president has been set. If it was alright for Joe so be it.
 
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Well now the president has been set. If it was alright for Joe so be it.
If thats true, then you get your sense of right and wrong by what other people can get away with.

I reject that derivation of ethics.
 
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If thats true, then you get your sense of right and wrong by what other people can get away with.

I reject that derivation of ethics.
Did you for the last administration! Are you consistent with that?
 
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Biden actually did that and who called for his impeachment?
If he did or not is utterly irrelevant as to whether you think presidents should be impeached if they do.
 
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Did you for the last administration! Are you consistent with that?
Substitute Biden for Trump in the question and my answer would be NO.

There are many open threads from that era where you can read about my opinions on specific issues and respond.

Regardless, it seems weird that your answer re Trump would depend on my answer re Biden. Why would your ethics depend on mine?
 
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