How is the judicial branch supposed to be checked and balanced?
By the impeachment of judges. By the fact that the executive branch nominates judges and then the senate confirms them. The rest is just your complete ignorance.
NATO doesn't matter to Americans and you know this.
That's your opinion. I disagree. Furthermore, the President has no power to unilaterally scuttle an agreement ratified by congress.
Not needed in large majority of cases. As with all case law, ots a fucking case by case basis.
Here's an excerpt from Plyler v Doe, a landmark SCOTUS case from the 80s:
Whatever his status under the immigration laws, an alien is surely a 'person' in any ordinary sense of that term. Aliens, even aliens whose presence in this country is unlawful, have long been recognized as 'persons' guaranteed due process of law by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
You are wrong.
This happens with every president, this one happens to be more open about it.
Name another incident since Nixon.
So.... where do you stop with this? Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton and papa Bush did this
Name another incident where a president threatened to use the power of the office to remove permissions from a law firm to step foot inside any federal building and remove all security clearances? When's the last time something commensurate happened outside a banana republic?
I'm sincerely disappointed by your lack of civic knowledge.