Very similar to the old "only Congress can change the law where they agreed to create the department of education and it is unconstitutional to get rid of it without Congress, but we don't care if you fire every employee" gag
> This whole thing where “well this is wrong but you have to pay the illegal tax anyway” makes no sense.
There is a reason why faith in American judiciary is at an all time low. The government is doing illegal things with no repercussions. People are getting harmed. How can anyone trust the system?
The rulings coming out from the Supreme Court wreak of bias. This isn't uncommon and is checked by more of a balanced court but holy hell. I have no concept of jurisprudence and I can still see how blatantly partisan most of the rulings have been lately.
Actually, it's ironically an excellent Freudian slip considering "wreak" doesn't just mean to make happen, it means to make happen in a violent, or wild, malevolent way - appropriate for the reeking actions of the Supreme Court who are definitely wreaking havoc!
The Presidential transition is within a few days of one month after the voting in the election that elects the President (and even less time after those votes are counted.)
It’s about 2½ months after the elections in which the people that elect the President are elected, but that’s a whole separate election.
You're pedantically correct, but in a way that's irrelevant unless the Electoral College sees its electors vote against the wishes expressed by the public in the public elections (which is now legally restricted from happening in the majority of states anyway).
Realistically, unless there's either effectively a coup by the Electoral College, or an incredibly close election that needs to wait for recounts or a runoff (second) public election in one or more states to know who the president will be, the president is known after the public election even if the paperwork for the votes that technically elect them don't happen until a couple of months later. So I'd consider the comment you replied to to be more true than yours despite yours being technically more accurate.
I agree that it's a negative, and if it were up to me I'd change things to make it more like the UK (though not only is it not up to me, but I may be biased as a Brit myself), however:
One big difference is that in the UK the cabinet is made up of MPs, and the second biggest party in parliament has a shadow cabinet at all times; so when they get elected (and, although things may be different next election, UK has traditionally been a two party system so it's always either the current biggest or the second biggest party who will win the election) they basically have the heads of department already in place, ready to take over and start working with the large non-partisan civil service.
Compared to the US, where congress/senators (equivalent to our MPs, in that they're the politicians who just won their local elections) haven't spent the previous years working as "shadow secretary of health/defense/education/whatever" (and they're not the people those jobs will be filled by) and although the president elect may have put some thought into it before the election, they haven't yet finalised decisions and discussed with their candidate for those positions about actually hiring them.
And I'm not sure about the numbers but I think that the US has a larger amount of partisan civil servants (west wing staff and thousands of other presidential appointments across the various departments) compared to the UK where there are partisan advisers for government members, but a larger proportion of work/responsibilities rest with career civil servants who don't change when a new government gets elected.
There's also the potential for slow recounts or, in some states, the need for runoffs (aka a whole new election), which is why there's a gap between the public election and the Electoral College voting - if it were up to me, I'd definitely get rid of the whole concept of the Electoral College, it's ridiculous (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45072350 & my reply to it).
(I've simplified a few things, for example UK cabinet doesn't have to be entirely MPs it can also include peers from the House of Lords, such as when the current Labour government got elected the PM decided not to keep the MP who had been his Shadow Attorney General in that role, giving it to a Lord instead... but this comment is already too long, so I've left out various details / edge cases like that.)
Consider how many of these injunctions have been ignored, challenged, and gone through a separate appeals process, only to be struck down by a SCOTUS shadow docket ruling. I suspect the reasoning is that a final SCOTUS ruling will be faster by not issuing an immediate injunction.
