It came from Congress creating those agencies as is their right to do so, and they were created with the idea of not being weaponize for partisan purposes. We really don't want the DOJ to be the personal enforcement of the president's whims against his political enemies.

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Amezarak an hour ago | parent [-]

It seems controversial that Congress could create independent executive agencies. Could they make the entire executive independent except for the military? Why or why not?

And while I agree we don’t want the DoJ treated that way, that’s how it’s been operated since its beginnings! If anything the past few decades have been relatively not so bad. And regardless of what I want that doesn’t answer whether it would be within Congresses power to make it independent of the President.

	▲	jibalt 30 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> It seems controversial that Congress could create independent executive agencies. To whom? The U.S. Constitution says that Congress has the power "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof." That's rather clear. The legislative branch makes those laws and the executive branch executes them. Beyond that its role is limited ... commander-in-chief of the military, pardon power, making treaties (with approval of the legislature), appointing ambassadors, judges, and other officers (with approval of the legislature). The legislature creates (or removes) the departments and sets forth their duties. The role of the executive is to see to it that the departments carry out those duties as established by the legislature.
	▲	goatlover 11 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The Congress, representing the will of the people as the re, has the most power of three branches. The president is technically elected by the states via the Electoral College unlike Congressional representatives. The president is supposed to answer to Congress. The purpose was not to have an exectuive wielding the power of a king or a tyrant, which the US founding fathers were worried about.