Example: The President is charged with being responsible
for a break-in at the opposing party’s headquarters.
The Legislative branch will impeach the President.
- Congress
and the President approve a law that would prevent certain minorities from
receiving tax exemptions which others are entitled to receive.
Judicial branch rules the law
unconstitutional.
- A
young man convicted by the courts of being responsible for the deaths of
thousands “during a wartime situation” has appealed his prison sentence to
the Supreme Court. The court denied
the motion to reverse the decision.
There is a great deal of public support on his behalf. Executive branch pardons criminal.
- A federal
judge has been accused of “accepting large donations of stock
certificates” from companies who have received some rather favorable rulings
from him in the past.
Legislative branch impeaches the judge.
- Because one
party has an overwhelming majority in both houses, the majority party has
decided to pass “mass legislation” to help the party goals.
Executive branch vetos bill
- The President
is tired of the hundreds of bills that have crossed his desk for action
during the past two years. He
decides in a moment of rage that he will “veto all bills, regardless of
their nature, in the future.” Legislative
branch overrides veto (2/3rd majority).
- The
President makes a treaty with North Korea in which the United States
defense expenditures for the coming year are cut in half. Legislative branch does NOT approve treaty.
- Three days
before Congress is scheduled to adjourn, its members decide to deluge the
President with huge numbers of “approved legislation” in the hope that he
will hastily sign them into law without careful consideration.
Executive branch does not sign. (bills
die).
- Scenario: The
Supreme Court, which has been “leaning far too much toward the liberal”
for the likes of the President, loses two of its members – one by death
and the other through retirement. Who would address this issue?
Executive branch appoints two new justices.
- There is an
associate justice serving on the Supreme Court who is 88 years old. He is seldom able to attend sessions of
the court because of illness; when he is there he seems to have lost that
edge that earned him a spot on the court so many years ago. He is, in fact, becoming senile. Legislative branch impeaches the judge.
