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The least democratically responsible branch of the US federal government is the administrative state.


How do you see the Supreme Court as being more democratically responsible than the administrative personel of the executive branch?

To me, it seems clear that the "administrative state" is overseen by the president, who can overrule them and fire individual people, and the president is elected by the people every four years, and that makes the executive branch more democratically responsible than the supreme court, which is not elected by the people, and who serve for life with no democratic accountability.

But I'm open to hearing your argument for how the supreme court is more democratically responsible than the offices of the executive branch! Maybe we don't mean the same thing by "democratically responsible".


How are civil servants less responsible than supreme court justices that are appointed for life? At least with civil servants they can be fired.




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