“Economics of Justice” Cites Impacts of Unemployment, Loss of Tax Revenue, and Business Uncertainty
Framing the issue, the report states, “While Jefferson and the other Framers provided for an independent federal judiciary in the Constitution, no effective way has been found to address the occasional “choke hold” that the executive and legislative branches exert on the federal and state judiciaries through control of the purse-strings. The reality is that the third and co-equal branch has been reduced to a supplicant in search of funding from the two other branches of government.”