The EXECUTIVE branch
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The Founding Fathers wanted to keep political pressure away from the Judicial Branch in order maintain the system of checks and balances. The system of government would only work if the judiciary was free from Legislative and Executive influence.
Local governments have a lot of branches. They have judicial (courts), executive (mayors), and legislative (board/council) branches just like the federal government, and then they have many departments that mirror the federal agencies. Many local governments will have a Power Authority or a Department of Transportation, which technically could be called executive as they implement regulations, but it's easiest to think of them as separate agencies responsible for a set of duties. Other agencies deal with public safety, social services, and education, so there's quite a variety. For more information on local government spending, revenue, and employment, check out http://www.govistics.com (state & county data is free).
A Judge is either appointed or voted in, and in some states both. A state judge gets his/her power from the governer of the state. or the people. A judge is not all that powerful if you think of it. He/she is only following and interpreting the laws that the people have set fourth through their legislature. A judge does not even enforce laws, that is done through the executive branch of Government. Our Government is based on the U.S. constitution. Think about it, if we the people decided that the Democracy is not working out for us, in theory, we could change it because we the people give the Government its power; however this would be extreamly difficult and everyone would have to agree or at least the majority would in order to change out system to something we think would be better.
It belongs to the Legislative Branch !!!
== == One is the fact that the judicial branch needs the executive branch to enforce its decisions. As an example, when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional in Brown v. Bd. of Education of Topeka, it took the President's ordering the National Guard out to make some states abide by the ruling. The Judicial Branch has no way to enforce its decisions without the executive's co-operation. Another is the fact that it is the executive branch that nominates the judges in the first place. As a practical matter, presidents nominate persons who share the same political beliefs they do. This has the effect of creating (or trying to create) a judicial branch that will interpret the Constitution the way that that president would like. Trouble is, once a Supreme Court Justice is confirmed, nothing can be done to force him or her to rule in a particular way. They are appointed with lifetime tenure on good behavior and their salaries cannot be diminished while they are in office. And as to salaries, nothing says a president has to include raises for them in any budget he proposes.