Basically, people do what the law enforcement - like police and judges - say because they go to jail for a long time if they don’t. There are plenty of other punishments that aren’t jail, but those are really only enforced with the threat of jail time if you don’t comply, so it all comes back to jail in the end. Nobody’s going to come after Trump to put him in jail because he’s the president, and even before then, he had enough money to make sure nobody came after him anyway.
Nobody but the wealthy know exactly how they get away with their crimes, but I’d imagine some high-ranking members of the police force and probably several other people from other government agencies are willing to look the other way for a bit of cash, which allows the people who have that cash to essentially treat every crime like nothing more than a fine.
It says that one of the primary functions of the US Marshals Service is to carry out judicial orders, but it reports to the president. This looks like a flaw to me.
Yeah, the whole system is meant to work by assuming the president has the country’s best interests in mind and is willing to do what it takes to uphold them. Even when corruption inevitably wormed its way into every level of government, they still like they should pretend to have the country’s best interests in mind just to appease the population, so a lot of good happened even while a lot of bad was going on beneath the surface.
Now we’ve got a president who openly commits crimes and exploits the fact that the people meant to stop him are his subordinates now, and people still support him. It’s essentially proved to all corrupt politicians that they don’t need to hide it anymore, and no longer need to even halfheartedly care about the country’s best interests.
Our whole system that assumes the guy on top will at least feel compelled to “do the right thing” is instead being led by someone who ruins everything seemingly for fun, and he’s setting that example for a bunch of people who are eagerly waiting to be next in line when he finally dies.
Basically, people do what the law enforcement - like police and judges - say because they go to jail for a long time if they don’t. There are plenty of other punishments that aren’t jail, but those are really only enforced with the threat of jail time if you don’t comply, so it all comes back to jail in the end. Nobody’s going to come after Trump to put him in jail because he’s the president, and even before then, he had enough money to make sure nobody came after him anyway.
Nobody but the wealthy know exactly how they get away with their crimes, but I’d imagine some high-ranking members of the police force and probably several other people from other government agencies are willing to look the other way for a bit of cash, which allows the people who have that cash to essentially treat every crime like nothing more than a fine.
Thank you for your insightful reply.
I also found this: https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/analysis/trumps-politicization-of-the-u-s-marshals-service-is-a-threat-to-our-democracy/
It says that one of the primary functions of the US Marshals Service is to carry out judicial orders, but it reports to the president. This looks like a flaw to me.
Yeah, the whole system is meant to work by assuming the president has the country’s best interests in mind and is willing to do what it takes to uphold them. Even when corruption inevitably wormed its way into every level of government, they still like they should pretend to have the country’s best interests in mind just to appease the population, so a lot of good happened even while a lot of bad was going on beneath the surface.
Now we’ve got a president who openly commits crimes and exploits the fact that the people meant to stop him are his subordinates now, and people still support him. It’s essentially proved to all corrupt politicians that they don’t need to hide it anymore, and no longer need to even halfheartedly care about the country’s best interests.
Our whole system that assumes the guy on top will at least feel compelled to “do the right thing” is instead being led by someone who ruins everything seemingly for fun, and he’s setting that example for a bunch of people who are eagerly waiting to be next in line when he finally dies.