[…] David M. Driesen, a Syracuse University law professor, said Tillis’ comparison is faulty.
“There is no precedent for withholding monies across the board because of broad policy disagreement with the law,” Driesen said. “That is a frontal attack on the legislative authority of Congress.”
If lawmakers don’t challenge DOGE, by passing new laws or going to court, they risk losing the powers Congress has held for two and a half centuries. Driesen and other legal experts said judges might consider the lack of congressional opposition as they decide cases on this question.
“That shouldn’t matter at all as a matter of constitutional law,” Bowman said. “But I suspect that for some judges, the silence might carry some weight.”
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Good read, and valid point. The author is showing his age by suggesting they used Zip drives though. Lol
Also relevant, The Plot Against America which puts it in a philosophical / idealogical context. Their actions now make (an awful) sense to me.
if I say get off my property and you leave
the fact it’s not my property has zero relevance.
He has the power to do whatever he can get away with.
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Been wondering how long until someone gets arrested for punching one of these douches.
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We love to dream that we would put up a hell of a fight if the apocalypse happened, but the truth is most americans would last less than a month without the grocery store providing their every need.
its part of the problem. general populace still isnt impacted and people still think they can wait it out. it literally took a pandemic for people to sit up and give a shit last time and half of them were pissed because they had to wear a mask.
look at how our representatives are acting. zero shits given. no organizing on their part etc. I went to the protests the other week, it was the standard group of people who show up at every protest, the old women from the suffrage movement and LGBT+ align individuals. very small groups.
its unfortunate it but here we are. I’m just going to continue doing my shit trying to get my old antifa group back up and running, but it’ll take a bit since we literally have to connect without digital comms initially and re-establish everything we shut down. But our little groups are not going to be sufficient for this, so most activity will be muted until the populace gets active.
i guess the moron majority in congress thinks there’s no danger of a president usurping congressional power and authority, because there won’t ever be someone not ‘one of them’ in that office again.
They want the dictator. They’re absolutely going to sit with their thumbs up their asses and cheer it on.
I mean conservatives are inherently against democracy. I’m sure most of them are behind this 100%.
legally? obviously not
practically? we’ll see
also
monies
that would be funny if I wasn’t so tired
Fuck no.
No, the answer is no.
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You speak a lot of truth. If it wasn’t my family on the line I would say I am curious how this will all turn out. Unfortunately, I have too much to lose to be that detached.
As a child in elementary school, I recall the teacher describing balance of power and thinking it seemed like the president had too much power. I later learned some of the intricacies of the system, but am no expert and still recall not grasping how the checks and balances would actually play out if a nefarious individual were to infiltrate the system.
At this point, I’m thinking either my naive younger self was right, or these people that made it to power didn’t understand any better than my elementary knowledge and genuinely believe they have this power.
Or they know what they’re doing and it’s a blatant attack in the USA.
In any of these situations, there’s no clean way out when nearly half the population actually supports it.
