Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
It's time for President Trump to declare a four-year moratorium on the White House or the Justice Department responding or even acknowledging these kind of lawsuits.
The Trump administration likely violated the Constitution when it effectively shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, a federal judge has ruled.
In a 68-page opinion Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Theodore Chuang, an Obama appointee, wrote that "the Court finds that Defendants' actions taken to shut down USAID on an accelerated basis, including its apparent decision to permanently close USAID headquarters without the approval of a duly appointed USAID Officer, likely violated the United States Constitution in multiple ways, and that these actions harmed not only Plaintiffs, but also the public interest, because they deprived the public's elected representatives in Congress of their constitutional authority to decide whether, when, and how to close down an agency created by Congress."
First of all Congress has spoken on the topic of USAID many times. Just a random sample of their findings:
WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) held a hearing today titled “America Last: How Foreign Aid Undermined U.S. Interests Around the World” to expose egregious foreign aid spending, review proposed reforms, and aid the Trump Administration’s efforts to implement America-first foreign aid policies. Members of the Subcommittee presented an overwhelming array of examples illustrating how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has spent taxpayer dollars on programs that undermine American interests. Expert witnesses slammed the Biden Administration for blindly doling out money and not conducting proper oversight of tax dollars. The Subcommittee will continue to investigate this waste, fraud, and abuse while aiding the Trump Administration’s effort to reevaluate and realign U.S. foreign aid with America-first interests.
More importantly, ain't nobody got time to respond to hundreds, soon to be thousands, of separate lawsuits over every action that Donald Trump takes after being elected to shrink the waste, fraud, and abuse in government.
No.
Some lawyer(s) claiming to represent "unnamed aid workers" are not granted the power under our Constitution to stop the president in his tracks and force him to wait to protect the nation from financial disaster and from violent illegal aliens until the cases wend their way through the courts, whose dockets are already crowded with other frivilous lawsuits brought largely by trial lawyers who are heavy donors to the Democratic Party and their causes.
Nor should they have the power to induce the president to pause his work to respond to each and every one of them. This is a very old legal trick in the United States, to overwhelm the adversary and force them to respond to filing after filing. It's a trick done by lawyers who know that they ultimately have a losing case.
An obscure judge, installed by the political opposition, should not and does not have he power to force the executive to cancel actions because he mouths the catch phrase now in vogue: "likely unconstitutional." They should at least have the guts to say which part of the USC Trump's actions violate and how.
From now on, such lawsuits should not even be responded to in court, until a lower court actually tries to enforce such nonsense. If that happens, the DOJ should immediately file a case with the USSC. If the USSC declines to hear the case, then they can continue to ignore the ruling.
Trump, and other White House officials should take a lesson from Hakeem Jeffries and answer any questions about the latest bullshit filing with "next question."
Trump has humored the last gasp of the lawfare long enough. Time to fully focus on the business of the American people.
The Trump administration likely violated the Constitution when it effectively shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, a federal judge has ruled.
In a 68-page opinion Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Theodore Chuang, an Obama appointee, wrote that "the Court finds that Defendants' actions taken to shut down USAID on an accelerated basis, including its apparent decision to permanently close USAID headquarters without the approval of a duly appointed USAID Officer, likely violated the United States Constitution in multiple ways, and that these actions harmed not only Plaintiffs, but also the public interest, because they deprived the public's elected representatives in Congress of their constitutional authority to decide whether, when, and how to close down an agency created by Congress."
First of all Congress has spoken on the topic of USAID many times. Just a random sample of their findings:
WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) held a hearing today titled “America Last: How Foreign Aid Undermined U.S. Interests Around the World” to expose egregious foreign aid spending, review proposed reforms, and aid the Trump Administration’s efforts to implement America-first foreign aid policies. Members of the Subcommittee presented an overwhelming array of examples illustrating how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has spent taxpayer dollars on programs that undermine American interests. Expert witnesses slammed the Biden Administration for blindly doling out money and not conducting proper oversight of tax dollars. The Subcommittee will continue to investigate this waste, fraud, and abuse while aiding the Trump Administration’s effort to reevaluate and realign U.S. foreign aid with America-first interests.
More importantly, ain't nobody got time to respond to hundreds, soon to be thousands, of separate lawsuits over every action that Donald Trump takes after being elected to shrink the waste, fraud, and abuse in government.
No.
Some lawyer(s) claiming to represent "unnamed aid workers" are not granted the power under our Constitution to stop the president in his tracks and force him to wait to protect the nation from financial disaster and from violent illegal aliens until the cases wend their way through the courts, whose dockets are already crowded with other frivilous lawsuits brought largely by trial lawyers who are heavy donors to the Democratic Party and their causes.
Nor should they have the power to induce the president to pause his work to respond to each and every one of them. This is a very old legal trick in the United States, to overwhelm the adversary and force them to respond to filing after filing. It's a trick done by lawyers who know that they ultimately have a losing case.
An obscure judge, installed by the political opposition, should not and does not have he power to force the executive to cancel actions because he mouths the catch phrase now in vogue: "likely unconstitutional." They should at least have the guts to say which part of the USC Trump's actions violate and how.
From now on, such lawsuits should not even be responded to in court, until a lower court actually tries to enforce such nonsense. If that happens, the DOJ should immediately file a case with the USSC. If the USSC declines to hear the case, then they can continue to ignore the ruling.
Trump, and other White House officials should take a lesson from Hakeem Jeffries and answer any questions about the latest bullshit filing with "next question."
Trump has humored the last gasp of the lawfare long enough. Time to fully focus on the business of the American people.
