[ExI] Expanding who can enforce the law in the US

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: [ExI] Expanding who can enforce the law in the US

On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 4:07 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>... Honestly, what is stopping you from suing, if you know of financial malfeasance on the other matters?  Get on it, me lad!  I won’t object, not for a minute.  I’ll cheer you on.  I have no current bets on the prediction markets, being distracted with life matters, so I have no personal stake in it one way or the other.

>...Lack of standing.  Generally, in the US, private citizens are not allowed to sue to enforce criminal breaches of law.  Private citizens can file civil suits if there is a civil complement - but often there isn't.

>...I wonder what might happen if a Constitutional amendment passed allowing to sue to enforce federal law, and the feds to sue to enforce federal law, where the usual party is failing to enforce their body of law.  In the former case, restrict to breaches that affect the state in question or its citizens (though anything that affects the US as a whole also affects each state by definition).  This might force some of the power that Congress has deferred to the executive branch over the past few decades back out of the executive branch.

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Well said Adrian.  I agree, and i left your entire comment in there intentionally.

We have the mechanism of impeachment for matters connected to politics.  In the previous election, we saw the multiple intrusion of cases that appeared to be criminal and civil courts trying to take on the role that congress is empowered to take on.  This had consequences, with which we are dealing to this day.  A clear lesson was handed to the American people: don't try to use criminal court for cases that appear political.  If we attempt to use criminal courts for political weapons, we no longer have them as weapons against crime.

spike