Doch sei auch kurz verwiesen auf ein demokratiestärkenden Urteil der dritten Gewalt aus Chicago vom 19. April 2018 in City of Chicago v. Jefferson B. Sessions III mit diesem lesenswerten Ausschnitt zur Gewaltenteilung, die das Bundesberufungsgericht des siebten Bezirks der USA nach einer nun vereitelten Machtusurpierung durch den Bundesjustizminister stützt:
If the Executive Branch can determine policy, and then use the power of the purse to mandate compliance with that policy by the state and local governments, all without the authorization or even acquiescence of elected legislators, that check against tyranny is forsaken. The Attorney General in this case used the sword of federal funding to conscript state and local authorities to aid in federal civil immigration enforcement. But the power of the purse rests with Congress, which authorized the federal funds at issue and did not impose any immigration enforcement conditions on the receipt of such funds. In fact, Congress repeatedly refused to approve of measures that would tie funding to state and local immigration policies. Nor, as we will discuss, did Congress authorize the Attorney General to impose such conditions. It falls to us, the judiciary, as the remaining branch of the government, to act as a check on such usurpation of power. We are a country that jealously guards the separation of powers, and we must be ever-vigilant in that endeavor.