User blog comment:Benihime101/Central 46 is alive?/@comment-3014642-20101019224639

No, they're really all that bad. I mean, is SS a monarchy or a dictatorship? No sentence they've ever handed down has been (known to be) overturned? What the hell is that? Moreover, if they're really as unpowered as they seem to be, why are they in charge of a spiritually superior group like the Gotei 13? Further, why don't they have jurisdiction over the nobles or the Academy? So it's "have no power over the school system but all power over its products". That whole set up is what led to this whole mess and others like the New Captain Shusuke Amagai arc. I can't believe they denied Yamamoto (albeit in a filler arc); the founder of the Academy and strongest of a millennial crop of shinigami.

They don't, or at least didn't, allow any sort of defense on the part of Kisuke and Tessai (albeit Kisuke didn't helped neither his nor Tessai's chances with his constant legit retorts)when they were on trial; the only thing the 46 employed there was prosecution. Apparently, they don't observe "innocent until proven guilty" or even proof of innocence. That's the only thing keeping them from being exactly like Congress. The Central 46 really are that bad.