The power of the purse is the fundamental basis of representative legislative bodies in the English-speaking world since time immemorial. It's not some incidental thing or boring bureaucratic technicality. The power to make laws flows from it. Usurping it is dissolving Congress in all but name.
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Adam Gurri
One thing that’s difficult to get people to really grasp is that impoundment is both lawless and actively undermines the basis of democracy. It’s one of those areas where rule of law and democracy are extremely closely aligned, the only area where it’s closer would be election law itself.
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But the right of parliament to meet, to raise grievances and hold ministers to account. They were very much fought over.
Eye on the big picture.
(Iirc, Sir Richard Hoghton was third in line back in 1611.)
(And of course, the executive usually controls Parliament, so the issue doesn't even arise.)
Who knew that WWF was just a better model for building political narratives.
Which is not what has happened
If SCOTUS orders them to stop, and they just… don’t, and congress doesn’t care, what then?
I’ll say this, the Trump/Musk ability to simply ignore anything they don’t like is almost impressive
At which point we're looking at possible internal fracturing of federal govt, and open revolt by state govts/courts
It boggles the mind how mainstream media keeps so badly missing the danger we’re in rn.
Traitors all Trump,Musk,Vance must be removed! NOW
Call 202-224-3121
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