ICYMI: A group of admin law scholars sent a letter to the House & Senate Appropriations Committees arguing why "pocket rescissions"—the idea that the president can propose rescissions of budget authority late in a fiscal year and then allow funds to expire while the proposal is pending—are illegal.
that ought to do it
Hope those law scholars hand delivered those letters to the Republicans-tied them to a chair & forced them to memorize the law. (😑 Trump's majorities in House & Senate know exactly what they're doing...And they along with GOP SCOTUS Team of 6 are handing purse & power to their Unitary Executive.
Whether lack of imagination or arrogance, many legal scholars refused to consider that our guardrails might not hold. Many of us tried to warn them back in the day... bsky.app/profile/rosi...
Will that stop Trump
Republicans in Congress: "Boring!"
Line item veto is UNCONSITUTIONAL, yet line item "fucking ignore congress completely" is just hunky dory got it
Read the letter here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
It would be simpler to just state that everything he does is illegal and then let the lawyers sort it out.
Did anyone ever think it would be LAWYERS trying to protect us from the government?
Yes, because they've been doing it for decades.
Only half of them. Don't forget about the ones defending pedophiles and rapists.
You would think that the members of the House & Senate Appropriations Committees would already know that it's illegal. Right?