[…] David M. Driesen, a Syracuse University law professor, said Tillis’ comparison is faulty.
“There is no precedent for withholding monies across the board because of broad policy disagreement with the law,” Driesen said. “That is a frontal attack on the legislative authority of Congress.”
If lawmakers don’t challenge DOGE, by passing new laws or going to court, they risk losing the powers Congress has held for two and a half centuries. Driesen and other legal experts said judges might consider the lack of congressional opposition as they decide cases on this question.
“That shouldn’t matter at all as a matter of constitutional law,” Bowman said. “But I suspect that for some judges, the silence might carry some weight.”
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if I say get off my property and you leave
the fact it’s not my property has zero relevance.
He has the power to do whatever he can get away with.
Especially if not a single person opposes him in person. Fuck that. Why is everyone just sitting down. Someone punch that fuck already. A bunch of someone’s preferably. All at the same time.
Been wondering how long until someone gets arrested for punching one of these douches.
As a Canadian and living here my entire life, watching American tv and news as a kid, seeing all your shit on the internet into adulthood and now pushing senior, I am so fucking surprised no one has gotten physical in America. Not one person.
The benefit I suppose is it makes me worry less about having to fight my neighbors because of their idiot fascist fuckfaces designs on what is not his or ever will be.
We love to dream that we would put up a hell of a fight if the apocalypse happened, but the truth is most americans would last less than a month without the grocery store providing their every need.