Federal Appeals Court Ruling Sides With Trump’s Plans To Dismantle Institute Of Peace

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Federal Appeals Court Ruling Sides With Trump’s Plans To Dismantle Institute Of Peace​

Federal Appeals Court Ruling Sides With Trump’s Plans To Dismantle Institute Of Peace

A federal appeals court ruled President Trump can remove USIP board members, allowing him to move forward with plans to dismantle the peace agency.

dailycaller.com

29 Jun 2025 ~~ By Melanie Wilcox

A federal appeals court Friday lifted a lower court’s order that blocked President Donald Trump from moving forward with efforts to dismantle the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that Trump is likely to suffer “irreparable” harm if barred from fully exercising his executive authority over the Institute’s board. The court concluded that the Institute holds “substantial executive power,” meaning its board members are not protected from at-will removal by the president.

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“As a general rule, the President may remove executive officers at will,” the three-judge panel wrote. They added that only agencies with quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial authority, and lacking substantial executive power, may qualify for special protections — standards the court said USIP does not meet.
Created by Congress, the USIP is a nonpartisan organization aimed at advancing U.S. interests through conflict prevention and peacebuilding worldwide.
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After that decision, USIP temporarily regained control of its headquarters and began reviewing internal systems. The appeals court’s ruling now permits the Trump administration to resume efforts to restructure or eliminate the agency.

Commentary:
Hmm...., “Institute of Peace”. Sounds like something out of George Orwell's Sci/fi novels.
Perhaps DSA Democrats will rename it as the "Ministry of Truth"
This is interesting, because I've read articles and comments by several law professors insisting Trump would lose on every single one of the issues, while several others claims the opposite. Showing where law professors rank on the legal food chain.
This supposed "Think Tank" group created during the "Cold War" era.
"This group also includes the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a foundation which annually granted nearly $300 million in funding to pro-democracy work in over 100 countries, and the Wilson Center, a nonpartisan think tank which supported foreign policy research, particularly on Russia and Central Asia. The U.S. also grew its humanitarian aid programs through agencies like USAID, started in the 1960s in part to combat the influence of Communism, and through the State Department."
"In the last two months however, the Trump administration effectively closed down USAID; frozen NED funding; cancelled some State Department grants; and ordered the Wilson Center to dramatically downsize."
Source: What is the U.S. Institute of Peace and why is Trump trying to shut it down?

 

[1srelluc]

It may as well been called the National Institute of Grift.

 

[Stryder50]

It may as well been called the National Institute of Grift.

Close.

Further from the link;

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington that helped shape the current overhaul of the federal government, criticized USIP last year for being opaque in its operations and for favoring Democratic-leaning appointments.
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USIP staff argue the executive branch has no authority to shut them down or freeze their funding, as the think tank is not a federal agency and is directly funded by Congress.

“We have been talking to them for many weeks now in anticipation of just this possibility and also to remind them that we are a private, nonprofit corporation in the District of Columbia and therefore not a federal agency, and therefore, the federal government has no entitlement to come in and take over our building,” Moose told reporters on Monday.

Moose had refused to vacate his office even after the Trump administration fired him and most other board members. USIP staff are planning to file a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s appointment of a new USIP president, because they argue the hirings and firings sidestepped the think tank’s procedures for choosing leadership.

“We do not recognize the illegitimate president,” George Foote, USIP’s lawyer, told NPR.

According to USIP’s own rules, the president of the United States is allowed to appoint and remove board members, but must do so with the consent of a majority of the board or with approval from several Senate subcommittees.
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See red highlight above. Guess only the Left wing is allowed to determine if a POTUS is legit or not.

POTUS signs off approval on all Congress spending and in this case has a right to shut off Federal funding.

All "USIP" needs to do is remove "United States" from their name since they aren't a "Guvmint" agency, and seek funding from private sources. Maybe Soros and the donors to Antifa will pitch in.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

A group of highly compensated grifters whose biggest job is justifying their jobs.