Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Trump Plots to Steal Congress's Budget Authority

Public Notice's Liz Dye writes about the Impoundment Control Act which Trump refers to when he talks about "impoundment power."

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-- Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) December 6, 2024 at 11:12 AM

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He can TRY it. Courts can deny it easily. Just like last time.

#1 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-12-11 10:35 AM

"One of the strangest aspects in living in a declining democracy is that everyone is forced to learn about arcane areas of the law ... if only to see them trampled by the despot.

The first Trump administration taught us about the Logan Act, the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, and the Presidential Records Act. Those were all about the limits of the president's authority.

Could Trump dispatch Mike Flynn to secretly negotiate with the Russian ambassador before taking office? Could he simply stack federal agencies with his cronies serving in an acting capacity and avoid Senate confirmation? Could he steal or destroy government records?

The answer was an enthusiastic "yes," thanks to the Supreme Court, with an assist from Judge Aileen Cannon.

In the name of ensuring that he can act "boldly" and "without hesitation," six conservative justices gave the president unlimited authority to commit crimes without fear of prosecution.

The imperial presidency is upon us."

article traces this back to Nixon... which makes perfect sense

But hey, Trumpers wanted their Mean Daddy back to spank them when they are Bad, and remind them they are trash compared to the Oligarchs.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-11 10:47 AM

He can TRY it. Courts can deny it easily. Just like last time.

#1 | Posted by e1g1

Remind me who owns the highest court.

Trump can literally do whatever he wants.

#3 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-12-11 12:12 PM

The Constitution is meaningless to conservatives.

#4 | Posted by qcp at 2024-12-11 01:08 PM

And you can bet your arse that our resident "constitutional c-c-conservatives" will find every reason imaginable to excuse it or ignore it.

All while assuring us they don't really like Trump and they didn't vote for him neither...

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2024-12-11 08:42 PM

they don't really like Trump and they didn't vote for him neither...

, but...

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-11 09:31 PM

People need to wake up to what is happening.

Our country is about to sustain the largest change since FDR and possibly the Civil War. Our government is about to be made into something that people will not recognize and only a few can imagine. People are still talking in terms of normal politics.

We are no longer in normal politics.

------- is about to dismantle the government as we understand it to be.

He is stacking his administration, top to bottom in all of the important policy making positions, with fanatics who have a specific plan to reach a set goal. They want to dismantle the progressive state that our nation has known since 1935 (you know, the end of the Gilded Age).

These people, expressly, do not believe in democracy. They want to dismantle it.

Impoundment is just one feature-(it will be funny for some to defend what ------- will do and the SC will permit, when you think of what the SC did when Biden tried to use the authority specifically granted to him in the student loan debt forgiveness case).

The seeds of these future SC decisions have been sown and will reap dividends in the coming years as they are used to justify the imperial presidency that is coming.

The guardrails are off, the House is led by an empty suit, the Senate is giving away their advice and consent powers, the SC WILL NOT SAVE US. The CJS failed us. the DoJ is going to be weaponized against any and all of -------'s enemies, ------- is targeting the leadership in the Armed Forces, the corporations and the donor class are just trying to survive while they grab for deregulation, red state governors have bent the knee blue state governors will be blackmailed with this impoundment power to bend the knee.

One only look at what ------- cares most about and who, again specifically WHO he is nominating. There are reasons why Hegseth and Pam Bondi and Gabbard and Steven Miller and Vought and Patel and others were chosen. It is for what they will do for -------, and those will be the powers that implement the destruction. They are all either Trump sycophants or like Miller and Vought have specific goals in mind and will be in the position to implement them.

------- doesn't care about foreign affairs so he threw Rubio a bone so he could get DeSantis to name his daughter in law to his seat. He could give 2 ----- about vaccines so he threw RFK Jr into HHS.

It's the fanatics that will be implementing Project 2025.

And the scary thing about Project 2025 is it is only a plan for the first 6 months. Beyond that? Well you don't want to imagine.

#7 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-11 09:35 PM

He can't steal what republicans want to give him.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-11 10:22 PM

Maybe he will reimpose college debt.

#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-11 10:34 PM

Maybe you can go fuck yourself, you drooling moron.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-12-12 10:02 AM

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