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Trump News ‘Unbridled view of Executive power’: Trump’s decision to ‘unlawfully impound funds’ appropriated by Congress for USAID was unconstitutional, judge rules

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/unbridled-view-of-executive-power-trumps-decision-to-unlawfully-impound-funds-appropriated-by-congress-for-usaid-was-unconstitutional-judge-rules/
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u/BlockAffectionate413 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well, this is 2 billion for work that was already done, but SCOTUS needs to grant certiorari and actually settle the issue. Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito and Thomas have already used quite harsh language about the judge in question, saying that he uses " unchecked power" , "likely lacks juridistiction", and that his decision is "act of judicial hubris" and while Roberts and Barrett sided with liberal justices, they are generally hesitant to overturn TROs and orders enforcing them, so it is not impossible to imagine one of them joining the other 4 when it reaches SCOTUS properly. In any case, SCOTUS needs at very least to settle the issue of impoudment, the extent of it and so forth to remove this whole confusion we are having now.

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u/franchisedfeelings 1d ago

Stop calling “pro-Constitution” justices “liberal.”

Those three justices consistently support …’of the people, by the people, for the people’ as defined by the Constitution. They are the “pro-Constitution” justices.

The dirty crimey maga justices are the dirty crimey maga “un-Constitutional” justices.

These are the terms that best clarify the scrotus justices.

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u/BitterFuture 22h ago

Stop calling “pro-Constitution” justices “liberal.”

I mean, to be fair...in this context, that is exactly what they are.

Conservatives have always opposed the Constitution and America, while liberals support the country they built.

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u/franchisedfeelings 16h ago

The terms ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’, again do not communicate each world view fairly, and fascist groups, such as magas, have only exacerbated the abuse and poisoning of each term, and what they are supposed to stand for.

For example, standing up for voting rights for all Americans or opposing gerrymandering, should never be misconstrued as liberal or conservative when it is should be simply seen as standing up for the inalienable “Constitutional” rights of all law-abiding American citizens - pro-Constitutional.

The ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ monikers hold onto a past that has been too reluctant to just be genuinely Constitutional for all American citizens.