House speaker eager to give up even more power to Trump
The president of the room, Mike Johnson, really needed to find a way to retroactively bless the recent bombing of Iran by President Donald Trump. Johnson took a few days, but here is what he found: the law on war powers is unconstitutional. You see how easy it is?
THE Act of war powers Requires that the president inform the congress within 48 hours of the involvement of the armed forces in hostilities or in situations where the involvement of our armed forces is imminent. The use of the armed forces is limited to 60 days, unless the congress declares war or grants the president an exception. It is not a long law. It is not difficult to understand. In addition, there is the Actual constitutionwhich only gives Congress the power to declare war.
One might think that the lecturer of the room could be interested in preserving the power of the congress, but Johnson is much more interested in sucking Trump. Johnson therefore decided to make a small violation of the separation of powers, claiming that the law on war powers is unconstitutional. For what? For reasons. By scholar. No, you cannot know what scholars or their reasoning. Just trust that Johnson is convinced by their argument and go with it.
This is of course not how it all works. Congress adopts laws, the executive power applies the law and the judiciary determines the constitutionality of the laws. There is a whole Rhetorical bit On this subject on the Supreme Court website, even. And if The congress had the power to determine the constitutionality of the laws, which would oblige the congress to vote on it. There are no people where the Constitution constitutes the president of the Chamber with the ability to throw laws if they hinder Trump.
Johnson is not the only one in his desire to reduce the congress to a vestigian organ – speak, the annex to the country. Giving power to Trump is the main function of the Congress Republicans at the moment. They have already completed on prices. They are Totally below with Give the power of the bag to the president. They have stood away To let Trump close the agencies on a whim.
And they think it’s great. Here is the republican representative Michael Cloud of Texas spurt: “It is us, in a sense, to give to the keys of the president to be able to continue to do the great job they do.” My friend, if you think that is the role of congress, leave your job and go home. Taxpayers do not need to pay your salary if you have no intention of doing your job.
In order not to be surpassed by the room, the GOP senators had an excellent idea: why not arrange a provision in the major bill – the legislation defended by Trump who, among other things, would have, among other things, Reduce the social security net to taters– to allow the management and budget office to reorganize the government in whatever way it wishes, including the closing agencies created by the congress? They even included $ 100 million in funding to start, without any monitoring of the necessary congress.
Unfortunately, there is no reason to expect the Supreme Court to intervene at a given time and restore balance. The conservative majority cannot even be awake to take a look when their power is directly attacked.
Of course, there are no people where Johnson or the chief judge John Roberts would leave these captures to be able to occur if it was a Democratic president trying to become king. It is not the behavior of a party that expects to no longer be out of power.
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