How messed up are Trump Supporters?

[Pat Mustard]

I believe a big part of the problem in the US is that the AG also fills the function of the minister for justice. Unlike in the Anglo-Irish model the AG isn't simply the government's legal advisor, there to say if proposed legislation is lawful or not, but also the effective Minister for Justice, in charge of the national legal system. It causes way too much of a conflict of interest. Of course the fact that the cabinet has no respondibility to the elected legislature is a whole quantum of another problem. An unelected government is highly un and anti democratic.

Now, our system is not perfect, yet. In Ireland judges are still in the gift of the government of the day, not independently appointed. But it is miles better than the US system.