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I'm not sure I agree it's _worse_. An agency acting extra-judicially with no consequences is a much deeper violation of the concept of democratic government than shitty legislation is. Shitty legislation is theoretically transparent and accountable to the electorate (you can read the penal code and your representative's voting record)[1] in a way that gov't organizations that break the law are not.

[1] Yes I'm aware that the size and complexity of the penal code makes exercising this transparency much, much, much more difficult, but that's a separate (and very important) issue entirely. Same goes for the warping of legislative accountability towards campaign donors.