If you think Trump shouldn't be able to take over the power of the purse that the Constitution gives to Congress, you'll want to read about a new DC Circuit case that's letting him run off with it joycevance.substack.com/p/congress-m...
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Why do we have a Congress? Trump is doing it all without them.
aug 14, 2025, 5:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Don't pay taxes - ANY taxes - NO REPRESENTATION
aug 14, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
What happens when the federal government breaches state constitutions?
aug 14, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
All hell breaks loose if Blue state, nothing if Red state.
aug 14, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 14, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 14, 2025, 6:16 pm • 0 0 • view
We are the ultimate purse holders. Saying only the GAO can sue to stop him is ridiculous. Can you say he’s got judges in his pocket ?
aug 14, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Further, there are no formal tariff trade agreements signed and ratified. Just loi's and verbal. Noise is about arbitrary tariffs set by the exec w/o congress. ARE APPROPRIATIONS OF THESE FUNDS BEING MADE? Congress has exclusive rights to appropriate funds. Are these funds sitting in treasury ?
aug 14, 2025, 5:31 pm • 5 0 • view
Add to this the new elective export 'taxes' Trump is charging some semi companies. Since when can the President unilaterally levy export taxes or fees on biz exports? R 'pro-biz' members ?Silent. Can you IMAGINE the R push back if a D president did this? Madness and R corruption.
aug 14, 2025, 7:44 pm • 1 0 • view
What the Hell is wrong with people? If you don't want to live in a democracy, there are plenty of countries that offer that. Please leave ours alone.
aug 14, 2025, 6:14 pm • 5 0 • view
1/ Terrific piece making clear the extraordinary significance of the outcome of this case, ultimately by the Supreme Court - and the near-certainty (whew) that the plaintiffs will file petition for en banc review. (Given the at-least-stlll-current makeup of that court, it'll be granted, the stay ...
aug 14, 2025, 9:50 pm • 0 0 • view
2/ will resume, and the outcome will prompt the Supreme Court to effectively decide the case on the emergency docket. (The panel majority's fabricated jurisdictional issue seems to mirror the sole issue in the 8th Cir's buy-in of DOJ's claim in the VRA Sec 5 claim - that harmed individuals lack ...
aug 14, 2025, 9:51 pm • 0 0 • view
3/ lack *statutory* jurisdiction to sue under Sec 5; only DOJ can - a claim that Kavanaugh, acting alone, recently denied in the context of the emergency docket. But at least the VRA Sec 5 case is purely a *statutory* interpretation case, albeit one with clear 14th & 15th Amendment implications ...
aug 14, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
4/ regarding Congress's intent in enacting the VRA, including who has standing to sue under it. But the impoundment case is an Art I case, by default, if the Court buys the claim that only the GAO commissioner can sue *under the Impoundment Act*. The (apparent) claim by the two judges in the ...
aug 14, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
1/Terrific piece that makes clear the impossibility of overstating the importance of the ultimate outcome of this case. I posted last night that the majority, which seems to have borrowed the VRA Sec 5 plaintiffs' gimmicky claim that IT'S THE JURISDICTION TO SUE UNDER THE STATUTE, STUPID!! And ...
aug 14, 2025, 8:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 14, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
So what need for a spending bill, at all?
aug 14, 2025, 5:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Kannst du dir vorstellen, wenn Trump einfach nur sagen würde: "Ich bin der Boss, ich tue, was ich will"?
aug 14, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Perfect!
aug 14, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
📌 #pin
aug 14, 2025, 5:29 pm • 0 0 • view
He has the treasury the military and now he's occupying cities that will never vote for him. Because they will never vote for him.
aug 15, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
Im becoming very discouraged.
aug 14, 2025, 5:24 pm • 7 0 • view
wtf is wrong with these ELECTED officials?! They have a JOB. Speaking for myself - voted for no one to be a fucking bootlicker.
aug 14, 2025, 5:36 pm • 3 0 • view
And when John Roberts selectively forgets separation of powers.
aug 14, 2025, 6:15 pm • 3 0 • view
Congress has abdicated it’s responsibility! It’s shameful. We can’t wait until midterms. What can we do?
aug 14, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Everything all at once….😑
aug 14, 2025, 7:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry boys and girls, dear leader owns us all. No more vaccines. No more freedom of movement. No more medical research. Inflation will run rampant, but he will hereby declare that there is no inflation. Millions will be out of work and he will say we have full employment.
aug 14, 2025, 7:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Hospital workers from other nations will leave the country in fear and patients will go untreated, but dear leader will declare we have the best healthcare in the world despite 10s of millions being struck off of medicaire and ACA.
aug 14, 2025, 7:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Can we sue this Republican congress
aug 14, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry but I can’t ❤️ your post. Thanks for the info though. 🙃
aug 14, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Dodaro has very little time left - he needs to get moving. And ensure that who he selects as Acting head will follow through.
aug 14, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
As SCOTUS enables Trump’s despotism and sociopathy, and Congress fiddles. Great democracy we don’t have here.
aug 14, 2025, 5:41 pm • 3 0 • view
So the new Comptroller gets chosen before the 2026 election? Sounds like Trump can do what he wants then.
aug 14, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
No. A bipartisan committee selects 3 people. He has to pick one of those 3, then that person has to be approved by congress. It could be held up for years.
aug 14, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
That would be assuming the Democrats can filibuster in the Senate, I guess.
aug 14, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
If the committee drags its feet, then potus has a fit about the list (not sure if he can send it back) then finally picks one, then the congress drags its feet, filibusters ... It could go quickly. Or take months. The longer it takes the better the odds for dems.
aug 15, 2025, 8:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump and his cronies loyalist and donors do not care about the people or anybody in the world that needs aid! But that’s what the United States used to care about! This regime only cares about power over people and money! That is why Trump needs to be impeached for the third time! Record setting!!!
aug 14, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 14, 2025, 5:26 pm • 0 0 • view
The 1933 playbook adapted to 2025 The Reichstag Fire is being reimagined. The Enabling Act of 1933 (Ermächtigungsgesetz 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich') gave the chancellor the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg
aug 14, 2025, 5:29 pm • 3 0 • view
If Members of Congress enter into a conspiracy with the President to violate the Constitution, they are all seditious traitors. Congress is actively ignoring their oath to uphold the Constitution and is purposefully allowing the President to violate the law and violate the Constitution. Traitors.
aug 14, 2025, 11:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Opening the purse is NOT the same as filling the purse. Wow you're dense.
aug 18, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
🚨Merkley on Rescissions: “The President is not a king!” 8/13/25 Senator Merkley took to the floor to speak about his amendment to prevent Trump & Vought (Proj 2025) to supersede Congress’s power of the purse. Republicans blocked Senator Merkley’s amendment. youtu.be/3ZdhNs_BzWU?... . 🚨SHARE🚨
aug 14, 2025, 5:42 pm • 5 0 • view
NAZIS blocked it - ILLEGALLY. They're not American thus don't qualify to be in AMERICAN government. Only good one ...
aug 14, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
The Constitution isn't worth much if it can be overridden with a few strokes of a sharpie and the delete button on a junior web designer's computer.
aug 14, 2025, 7:05 pm • 2 0 • view
He’ll do anything as he’s scared of the midterms and the Epstein files. Keep talking about the Epstein files.
aug 15, 2025, 12:15 am • 0 0 • view
All of these traitors wrapped in robes will be serving very long sentences soon
aug 14, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s not okay! That means he is going to steal more money. He already owes America every penny he has.
aug 15, 2025, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
Thanks very much for this, Joyce. Henderson and Katsas appointed by George HW Bush and rump respectively.
aug 14, 2025, 8:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Every Republican in Congress must go on record and explain why they are giving up their constitutional rights and duties and handing them to the president.
aug 14, 2025, 5:29 pm • 3 1 • view
Why has it taken you guys so long to see this play he’s running! He’s causing chaos you know it he’s really behind the scenes working to make sure while we’re concentrating on his chaos he’s cementing a 3rd term consolidating power the Supreme Court can’t control him he follows no laws or rules!
aug 14, 2025, 5:52 pm • 2 1 • view
End him.
aug 14, 2025, 7:26 pm • 1 1 • view
The SC has given him Carte Blanche to do Anything He Wants!!!!
aug 14, 2025, 6:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Fuck them all
aug 14, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Ugh!
aug 14, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Is it always going to be those 3 judges?
aug 14, 2025, 10:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Our laws are failing us at every turn.
aug 14, 2025, 5:29 pm • 3 0 • view
Do we still have a Congress? I thought they were disbanded.
aug 15, 2025, 12:03 am • 0 0 • view
This is yet another reason why America needs a new constitution. The 1787 version is irreparably broken.
aug 14, 2025, 5:24 pm • 4 0 • view
If the people who determine the law are empowering a tyrant and refusing to use legal checks and balances to stop Trump continued rape of America, what in the world are we supposed to do? One thing is clear, the law has lost its way. Using pretzel logic to justify what is plainly evil and wrong.
aug 14, 2025, 6:18 pm • 10 0 • view
Every day we have this legal whiplash because trump managed to get back into the office bent on revenge. Another failure of the constitution as interpreted by a corrupt SCOTUS that he can sit in the Oval Office today. Whatever he wants? He gets. Breaking and bending the law.
aug 14, 2025, 5:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Because - say it with me - Dems and LAZY, ENTITLED Americans who 'really aren't into politics' ALLOWED ANOTHER installing of Krasnov the Russian plant Nazi
aug 14, 2025, 7:28 pm • 1 0 • view
It is the Dem patriarchy that is particularly enabling and supporting the gop. They are in the way. And the Senate? All Dems voted for rubio's confirmation. The Senate will be the graveyard of Democracy. Some firewall!
aug 14, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Dems are on my fucking nerves but they didn't sell out this country for money, power and to coverup they FUCK and RAPE children. That would be GOPrussia. Fuck them NEVER held accountable!!
aug 16, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 0 • view
All those years of Fiscal Law training out the window.
aug 14, 2025, 5:38 pm • 1 0 • view
the majorities in Congress have shown zero inclination to slow down their president steamrolling them. It would almost seem natural for the courts to defer to that lack of interest
aug 14, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Stop Trump
aug 14, 2025, 5:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Can we Americans file a class action or individual suits against trump? Serious question Joyce. Thank you. Janet
aug 14, 2025, 5:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Why do so many of hate the Constitution and America? Greed
aug 15, 2025, 1:06 am • 0 0 • view
Trump has already taken over the power of the purse- $1B to retrofit his Qatar plane, paving the Rose Garden, multi million dollar "ballroom," millions to fly/attend sporting events, $52M so far his golf weekends, the billions his family is making off his Presidency and nada, crickets from Congress
aug 14, 2025, 5:43 pm • 4 1 • view
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein
aug 16, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Why are they letting such a dangerous moron like Trump get away with everything?
aug 14, 2025, 5:35 pm • 2 0 • view