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Urgently what we may think, the Supreme Court will have to decide whether to continue to expand the presidential forces beyond anything imagined in the constitution, or if it will adhere to the separation of the powers he claims to be aimed. One aspect of Donald Trump’s batch to store the federal workforce with loyalists Really before the court; On a broader scale, he tried to freeze his huge that he deliberately tried to freeze him in the face of the Supreme Court that could make him – and Bossi Elon Musk – a By virtue of reality A dictator over the entire federal government without checks and balances clearly in our constitution.
In the first three weeks in office, Trump tried to seize the authority of the portfolio away from Congress by seeking sudden freezing on federal scholarships, loans and financing approved from Congress. This process, which is called the reservation, violates the credits law, the Licensing Law, Anti -evaluation law of 1974 (ICA) and the constitution. the Almost 3 trillion dollars In frozen money, everything is done from Benefits of old warriors and Infrastructure projects to Local healthcare programsand Charitable societies Service of children and the elderly, and Foreign aid to save life. Even meals on wheels were affected. Freezing hit fear in the hearts of millions of Americans who do not know where to get their salary or the next meal.
Although the matter was canceled after the local court judge remained temporarily the procedure, the chaos he created was the point. A Leakage He reveals that, in fact, Trump was The goal of the administration To reserve the money illegally in order to ask a question before the Supreme Court to solve it. The administration will challenge the ICA challenge in an attempt to make the court give the president the authority to ignore federal spending laws.
Meanwhile, the provincial court judge issued the capital, Lauren Alejhan Judiciary Assigning federal funds continues to flow. As evidence, I cited asserting a White House spokesman that the delivery of the memo was a hoax – because the administration had canceled the memo but was not canceled by Trump’s executive, as the spokesman for the freezing was claimed. Some federal grant financing seems to be frozen in violation of court order. Meanwhile, Musk’s Doge personnel infiltrated the agencies via the executive branch, including the treasury and trade sections and Old warriors affairsTry to purify employees and reduce the elements of the spending line as part of the Trump batch to individual Dismantling the government. Effectively, whether through design or chaos, Trump will continue to stop delivering foreign aid and illegally financing to thousands of projects throughout the country unless the Supreme Court stops. The question is, is it?
The court has long recognized that some areas of strong presidential authority, such as dealing with foreign affairs. In the recent period, the right-wing majority of the court expanded those executive authorities, which gave the president’s immunity to the criminal acts that were conducted while they were in his position-a immunity that was not found anywhere in the constitution.
On the other hand, its Supreme Court has Acknowledging long ago It is the Congress, not the president, who carries the authority to direct federal financing. When the president takes “incompatible measures” with the will of Congress – in this case, the credits that were legally punished – “his strength in the lowest decline”, Judge Hugo Black wrote in the opinion of the majority in 1952. Before ICA, the Supreme Court considered unanimously that The president had no discretionary authority to block and direct funds for Congress. In the 1996 resolution, it was taken that the president could not cancel a Sunni law – to which Judge Thomas joined – Judge Antonin Skalia wrote a separate opinion that mocked the concept of constitutional authority to reserve. until Senior judges John Roberts Frankly mentioned in 1985 note “The president has no independent constitutional authority to book money.”
We will soon see whether any of our current judges still have the same opinions about the separation of the authorities and the authority of Congress now after the opposition argument was driven by their close friends. If the court’s side with President Trump is in this battle, what are the other sacred constitutional rights that he may give up to his thirst for power? Will they allow him to violate the guarantee of the first amendment to freedom of expression by imposing?National education“In all schools? Will they cut the protection of the search for the fourth amendment and protection by allowing immigration employees in Al -Dakhin? Churches and schools Without orders as part of a Collective deportation a plan? Will they erase the protection of the eighth amendment against “harsh and unusual punishment” for the sake American exile for foreign prisons? Will they allow President Trump? Deployment To store non -violent protests throughout the country?
Concerning now, the Trump administration is seeking an emergency appeal to shoot at the head of the Special Advisor Office, the office that takes the claims of federal violations. In a short time, the court will decide whether Congress can implement protection for independent federal agencies.
Whether this Supreme Court allows President Trump to finance federal funding to meet his whims, his final test may be. Do they support our constitution and condemn this seizure of the terrible power? Or are they Sitonon our first American king?