How much power is too much power?

[Darkwind]

It works for the people of the US.

It works for the Executive Branch of Government, which represents the people of the US.

 

[Darkwind]

Earlier this month, Trump tried to remove MSPB chair Cathy Harris without providing a reason, so she filed a lawsuit and a court temporarily reinstated her while litigation continues. She would be one of the people who would determine whether Trump has cause to fire an administrative law judge.

Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of the Special Counsel, also sued the Trump administration for firing him without cause because like MSPB members, the Special Counsel can only be terminated “for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” A federal district court blocked Trump’s actions, and his administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in.

Legal scholars argue these actions are part of Trump’s embrace of the Unitary Executive Theory, which asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the millions of members of the executive branch, possessing the ability to remove and replace any federal employee and control decision-making in agencies.

She will ultimately lose that bid to keep her job. It is illegal to be insubordinate to your boss.

 

[hjmick]

How much power is too much power?

It all depends on the person with the power...

There are some who could wield all the power in the world and use it for the benefit of mankind, and there others who could wield power over only a small corner of the world and commit the most heinous of atrocities. Then there are the ones that fall in between... they're a crap shoot.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Remember when Bill Barr was auditioning for the AG's job? He wrote a memo with his views on a topic he knew would please Don.

William Barr’s Unsolicited Memo to Trump About Obstruction of Justice​

Last month, news broke that in June 2018, President Trump’s current nominee for attorney general, William P. Barr, sent an unsolicited 20-page memo to the Justice Department critiquing special counsel Robert Mueller’s current investigation into Russian election interference.

Barr, who previously served as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, penned the memo as “a former official deeply concerned with the institutions of the Presidency and the Department of Justice.” The memo questions the scope of Mueller’s investigation, and it argues that Mueller should not be permitted to demand answers from the president about possible obstruction of justice based on attempts by Trump to pressure former FBI Director James Comey to drop his investigation of Trump’s ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

William Barr’s Unsolicited Memo to Trump About Obstruction of Justice | ACLU

www.aclu.org

Bill was a fan of what is referred to as the unitary executive theory. A theory existing inside a circle of conservative thinkers no doubt trump never heard of it since it would have required that he read something beyond his social media posts. But he immediately knew he liked what it said. It posits the authority of the executive is extremely more expansive than has been found in our tradition to date. Music to the ears of a man seeking dictatorial powers.

What Is Unitary Executive Theory? How is Trump Using It to Push His Agenda?​

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has executed a whirlwind of dismissals across the federal government that violated federal statutes and decreed numerous executive orders, including one that blatantly defied the plain language of the Constitution.

Behind the seemingly scatter-shot opening acts of his second administration, legal analysts see a common goal: to test a once-fringe legal theory which asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch.

If courts — specifically the Republican-appointed majority of the Supreme Court — uphold arguments based on the so-called “unitary executive theory,” it would give Trump and subsequent presidents unprecedented power to remove and replace any federal employee and impose their will on every decision in every agency.

What Is Unitary Executive Theory? How is Trump Using It to Push His Agenda?

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

The con trump is currently trying to pull off is using the existence of waste as a cudgel to amass unchecked power. To exert absolute authority to remake the government in his image. An image prioritizing loyalty to him over all else, bigotry pretending to be meritocracy, and a willingness to skirt the law in pursuit of said image.

He's finding out an awful lot of people, not all Dem's, are not comfortable with his goal. People who believe that much power is too much power. And they are beginning to raise a fuss. They don't object to streamlining the government where necessary. They object to the clumsy, reckless, incompetent way it's being done. As well as the assertion he has the right to continue no matter what the law says.

To use a phrase that the liberal media loves these days, a unitary executive is truly "enshrined in the Constitution."

Article II, Section 1 begins: “The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States.”

"A" President. Not a committee as the Biden WH was run, but one president. Uno. Unitary.

You might want to argue for a parliamentary system in which the legislative branch selects an executive from among their own, and can fire that person at will. Same for judges.

It might be a good idea, seriously. It would probably stop a lot of election drama.

But, that isn't what we have. We have a Unitary Executive.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Putting aside whether the spending is wasteful, Congress, not the prez, has control over spending for programs it created and appropriates funding for.

Show me "Drag shows in Ecuador," or "Shrimp on a Treadmill" in any budget, continuing resolution, or other spending bill passed by Congress. You cannot, because it would be political suicide for a congressman outside of California or New York to sign such a document.

Then show me where any such spending package requires that spending never be paused to address FWA.

 

[whitehall]

Only ignorant TDS lefties who fell asleep in Civics 101 ask that question.

 

[BackAgain]

Remember when Bill Barr was auditioning for the AG's job? He wrote a memo with his views on a topic he knew would please Don.

William Barr’s Unsolicited Memo to Trump About Obstruction of Justice​

Last month, news broke that in June 2018, President Trump’s current nominee for attorney general, William P. Barr, sent an unsolicited 20-page memo to the Justice Department critiquing special counsel Robert Mueller’s current investigation into Russian election interference.

Barr, who previously served as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, penned the memo as “a former official deeply concerned with the institutions of the Presidency and the Department of Justice.” The memo questions the scope of Mueller’s investigation, and it argues that Mueller should not be permitted to demand answers from the president about possible obstruction of justice based on attempts by Trump to pressure former FBI Director James Comey to drop his investigation of Trump’s ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

William Barr’s Unsolicited Memo to Trump About Obstruction of Justice | ACLU

www.aclu.org

Bill was a fan of what is referred to as the unitary executive theory. A theory existing inside a circle of conservative thinkers no doubt trump never heard of it since it would have required that he read something beyond his social media posts. But he immediately knew he liked what it said. It posits the authority of the executive is extremely more expansive than has been found in our tradition to date. Music to the ears of a man seeking dictatorial powers.

What Is Unitary Executive Theory? How is Trump Using It to Push His Agenda?​

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has executed a whirlwind of dismissals across the federal government that violated federal statutes and decreed numerous executive orders, including one that blatantly defied the plain language of the Constitution.

Behind the seemingly scatter-shot opening acts of his second administration, legal analysts see a common goal: to test a once-fringe legal theory which asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch.

If courts — specifically the Republican-appointed majority of the Supreme Court — uphold arguments based on the so-called “unitary executive theory,” it would give Trump and subsequent presidents unprecedented power to remove and replace any federal employee and impose their will on every decision in every agency.

What Is Unitary Executive Theory? How is Trump Using It to Push His Agenda?

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

The con trump is currently trying to pull off is using the existence of waste as a cudgel to amass unchecked power. To exert absolute authority to remake the government in his image. An image prioritizing loyalty to him over all else, bigotry pretending to be meritocracy, and a willingness to skirt the law in pursuit of said image.

He's finding out an awful lot of people, not all Dem's, are not comfortable with his goal. People who believe that much power is too much power. And they are beginning to raise a fuss. They don't object to streamlining the government where necessary. They object to the clumsy, reckless, incompetent way it's being done. As well as the assertion he has the right to continue no matter what the law says.

Cry me a river you ignorant twit.

The President runs the Executive branch. Period.

It is unitary. Congress doesn’t run any part of the Executive branch. Neither does the Judicial branch.

The full power and authority of the Executive branch is vested in the President.

Try reading the Constitution. Get an adult to assist you with comprehension, an area in which you remain clueless.

 

[Scoutster]

Cry me a river you ignorant twit.

The President runs the Executive branch. Period.

It is unitary. Congress doesn’t run any part of the Executive branch. Neither does the Judicial branch.

The full power and authority of the Executive branch is vested in the President.

Try reading the Constitution. Get an adult to assist you with comprehension, an area in which you remain clueless.

 

[BackAgain]

Putting aside whether the spending is wasteful, Congress, not the prez, has control over spending for programs it created and appropriates funding for.

Congress has the authority to authorize spending. Congress also has had authority to deny spending based on certain contingencies.

The ensuing declination by a President to spend certain allocated funds (in order to comply with such lawful Congressionally drafted contingencies) rests with the President.

 

[Dr.Destructo]

 

[sartre play]

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Embarrassing, the president of the United States as a cartoon.

 

[sparky]

The con trump is currently trying to pull off is using the existence of waste as a cudgel to amass unchecked power

Trump is operating according to constitutional law , all his powers are 'checked' against it Berg, so maybe you're real issue is the constitution itself

~S~

 

[ThisIsMe]

Dissolving USAID would be a final assault on the foreign aid agency, where the administration already has issued a stop-work order for huge swaths of development assistance and other aid, abruptly put at least 56 of its senior career staffers on administrative leave, and laid off several hundred contractors working directly for the agency.

Such an action, however, likely would go far beyond the executive branch’s actual legal authority.

Can the President Dissolve USAID by Executive Order?

Congress established USAID in statute, and the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.

www.justsecurity.org

But seeing all the unnecessary spending that has come out of USAID, don't you think it's time to clean that place up?