On the [government's] reading, the president would have had no need ever to seek the Senate's advice and consent for his [US attorney] appointments. Whenever there was a fair prospect of the Senate's rejecting his preferred nominee, the president could have appointed that individual unilaterally to serve ad infinitum. It is unthinkable that such an obvious means for the executive to expand its power would have been overlooked by Congress.
When the Framers conceived of the separation of powers, they never planned for, 'what if one branch doesn't want any powers?' The Senate voted to NOT have a vote on approving Iran strikes, creating constitutional uncertainty about how the system functions when branches decline to exercise their designated authorities and responsibilities.
Mr. President: this was not an inevitability. This is a deliberate choice of aggression when diplomacy and security were within reach. Stop lying to the American people. The notion that a President can plunge the United States into a regional war in one of the most volatile places on earth - without even briefing Congress, much less securing its authorization - is irreconcilable with the text, structure, and history of the Constitution.
The Justice Department appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that because Hemani admitted to FBI agents that he used marijuana several times a week, he is a "persistent" drug user, thus rendering illegal the possession of the gun he bought legally and keeps securely in his home.
He can't legally do it, so, I don't think this survives first contact with the courts. If he passes this kind of executive order, I imagine within hours there will be people who have already developed their litigation strategy to counter it, because it's being broadcast by him and his team, or at least by this group in The Washington Post.
Michael Gerber, the police department's deputy commissioner for legal affairs, told council members Wednesday that the NYPD will craft a framework that carefully weighs constitutional considerations, balancing public safety with free speech rights and establishing clear procedures for managing protests.
To be absolutely clear, neither Donald Trump's nor Bannon's proposals are remotely legal (or predicated on fact). The law prohibits intimidating voters where they are casting ballots - and it's hard to see how the presence of armed, masked agents from a paramilitary outfit that has shown no compunction at kidnapping and killing people would have any other purpose. And the Constitution gives states control over their own elections' processes,
"It has been baked in that the states are largely in charge of the election process, and that the federal government can set or override rules for that process if they wish, but it's very specific that that has to be done through Congress and not through lone executive action," said Justin Levitt, a constitutional and law of democracy scholar at Loyola Law School who was a non-partisan policy adviser for Democracy and Voting Rights during the Biden White House.
On Monday, he again claimed that undocumented immigrants are voting for Democrats en masse, even though noncitizens are legally barred from casting ballots in federal elections. These people were brought to our country to vote, and they vote illegally, Trump said. And it's amazing the Republicans aren't tougher on it. The Republicans should say, We want to take over, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places.' Trump added, The Republicans oughta nationalize the voting.
A wealth tax on billionaires is a horrible idea. It is unconstitutional: a tax on wealth, not income. It's never enough. The taxers will soon return with a lower threshold and a higher rate. Consider the income tax and the Alternative Minimum Tax, which were initially touted as affecting only the very wealthy at a low rate. Today? Subsidizing health care creates artificially inflated demand, which can be resolved only by increased prices or shortages.
The Founders, in creating and nurturing our system of governance by and through the Constitution provided separate and distinct branches of government, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial and, further, provided for intentional, established and delineated checks and balances so that power was balanced and not able to be usurped by any one branch tyrannically against the interest of the citizenry.
The IRA requires drugmakers to sell selected patented drugs to the government for its Medicare Parts B & D programs at a stipulated "maximum fair price". If they don't agree to these prices, then they face tax penalties on sales of the drug exceeding their profits from it, or the exclusion of all their drugs from Medicare and Medicaid purchases. This would foreclose access to up to 160 million patients, accounting for around 40% of US prescription drug spending or 20% of global prescription drug spending.
The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal from a coalition challenging the constitutionality of legislation that opens the door to major changes at Ontario Place. The urban park on the Toronto waterfront, opened in 1971, included a theatre that showed movies on a huge screen, children's play areas and several pavilions suspended above the water. The Ontario government plans to redevelop Ontario Place to include an elaborate spa operated by a private company.
President Trump's unilateral military action to attack another country and seize Maduro - no matter how terrible a dictator he is - is unconstitutional and threatens to drag the U.S. into further conflicts in the region. What does it mean that the U.S. will 'run' Venezuela, and what will Trump do next around the world? The American people voted for lower costs, not for Trump's dangerous military adventurism overseas that won't make the American people safer.
President Donald Trump has brought Americans into an undeclared, unprovoked, illegal, and unconstitutional war against a sovereign country, murdered its citizens, and kidnapped its leader in what Trump called a large scale strike against Venezuela and its President Nicolas Maduro. Why war? For what reason? Trump is pushing our country into war without any explanation. The Constitution requires Trump to go to Congress. Without congressional approval, Trump's actions violate U.S. law.
It's not possible to have a real impeachment; however, they want to make a record that President Lai would be the first president considered impeached in the history of Taiwan's democracy, said Yen-tu Su, an expert in constitutional law and democratic theory at Academia Sinica, Taiwan's top research institution. It's a way to register their protest. It's a way to humiliate the president, and also a way to retaliate against the executive branch refusal to promulgate legislation passed by the legislators, he told Al Jazeera.
Rikki Held grew up on her family's ranch in Montana, watching the land transform amid the climate crisis. The Powder River, which runs through the property, has sometimes dried up during drought, leaving crops and livestock without water. At other points, rapid snowmelt and heavy rains have caused flooding and eroded riverbanks, making the land difficult to use. Two years ago, the 24-year-old and a group of other young people won a groundbreaking legal victory, intended to prevent those impacts from worsening.
Donald Trump's back-to-back tirades this week against Somali immigrants in Minnesota, many of whom are U.S. citizens, brought into the open the kind of virulence that, during his first term, the President mostly tried to keep behind closed doors. "Their country stinks, and we don't want them in our country," Trump said on Tuesday, during a Cabinet meeting. On Wednesday, after an event at the White House, he called Somalia "a hellhole" and complained that Somalis have "destroyed our country."
The initial 14 were brought to Ghana on September 6. Three were deported that night. 11 were held in military detention. Out of that 11, 10 were deported with the matter in court, and eight of them are in Togo,
This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law, Judge Immergut wrote in a blistering ruling which rejected the Trump administration's claims of a War ravaged Portland. She added that that the Trump administration's arguments in the case risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power to the detriment of this nation. Further, the judge added, this country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs.
As far as I know, Winston Talley was a very ordinary guy with low-level crimes, and he asked a federal judge smuggling his papers out of the prison to stop the whip. And I was taken aback because I didn't know that prisoners were whipped and I was yet taken aback twice by the opinion. One part of it is that a federal judge in Arkansas appointed the best lawyers in the state-the leaders of the bar-to represent him.
