> it should be an easy political win for legislators to smack it down with some new more specific laws.
Which is a lengthy process and relies on Congress actually being effective and free of corruption, which they aren't.
Which is a lengthy process and relies on Congress actually being effective and free of corruption, which they aren't.
As for corruption, I suspect agencies may be more or less corrupt on an individual basis. I don't have any hard data, but I suspect they're less corrupt on average. The Supreme Court has, repeatedly, given Congress members the go-ahead to be almost as corrupt as they want, while they're harsher on executive branch agencies.