It's a farce.

The checks aren't working and there are no balances.

Right? Hard to fathom.

Exactly! Robin Williams had a comedy routine that had something to do with the UK cops not carrying guns. With a grin, he wondered if the cops would shout, "Stop! Or I'll say stop again" to a person running after doing illegal activities. Feels like the court system.

"Illegal" has a different meaning when the perpetrator is rich. For example: "Illegal immigration" = super-duper real crime, punishable by up to a lifetime in a foreign gulag. "Illegally falsifying business records" = boys will be boys, punishable by a shrug and time served.

For lots of legal things that only involve who pays how much to whom, we work on the legal fiction that we can always make everyone whole by paying back the money later, perhaps with interest. So there's time to allow the parties to appeal a novel verdict if they want to.

Same way that Trump was impeached last term and never removed from office, then allowed to run again.

It's like they're begging Congress to step in.

The naked emperor is protected by a supreme guard in black robes. If your robe is inferior to theirs, you probably declare that the emperor is naked at the risk of an attack by the supreme guards, so you probably do it timidly and without much effect. That’s my interpretation of it.

It's bad but in practical terms they want to avoid on-again off-again whiplash until there's a final ruling, and everyone knows it's going to SCOTUS for that.