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Does it even matter anymore what Congress funds if administration is just going to illegally order everything defunded? Everything with them is just for the sp

by ck2 1y ago

Does it even matter anymore what Congress funds if administration is just going to illegally order everything defunded? Everything with them is just for the spite, has nothing to do with logic or savings. The next super space-telescope is already paid for at $3.5 Billion and is READY TO LAUNCH and they are trying to kill it out of spite https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-next-major-space-telescope-is-ready-to-launch-trump-wants-to-kill-it/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-next-major-... Everyone that gave them power is the problem, they are exactly as advertised.

dragonwriter 1y ago
> Does it even matter anymore what Congress funds if administration is just going to illegal order everything defunded? No, if you have an executive dictatorship unbound by law, nothing Congress does matters.
- verdverm 1y ago
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- dc396 1y ago
  I think the term you're looking for is "unitary executive" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory). It's interesting that (a) it seems mostly favored by Republican presidents; and (b) the criticisms that "the theory could lead to more corruption and less qualified employees" would appear to have been empirically demonstrated to be true.
  - dragonwriter 1y ago
    > I think the term you're looking for is "unitary executive" It's not. Unitary executive theory holds that Congress has no power to wall of inherent executive power from the President or to assign powers to the executive branch but deny the President control over them, which is problematic and IMO based on a tendentious (but ag least tenuously defensible) reading of Article II, but it is a far cry from unbound executvie dictatorship. Which is not to say that there isn't some overlap between people arguing for the unitary executive theory and those actually pursuing unbound executive dictatorship, but they are not the same thing Those pursuing unitary executive theory I consider political opponents, those seeking executive dictatorship unbound by law are enemies of the Constitution.
    - ck2 1y ago
      Congress is doing almost exactly what Germany's parliament did for Hitler in 1930s: Enabling Act essentially one person rule, make all the judges not going along with it resign (or executed) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

by ck2 1y ago

dragonwriter 1y ago

> Does it even matter anymore what Congress funds if administration is just going to illegal order everything defunded? No, if you have an executive dictatorship unbound by law, nothing Congress does matters.

verdverm 1y ago
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dc396 1y ago
I think the term you're looking for is "unitary executive" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory). It's interesting that (a) it seems mostly favored by Republican presidents; and (b) the criticisms that "the theory could lead to more corruption and less qualified employees" would appear to have been empirically demonstrated to be true.
- dragonwriter 1y ago
  > I think the term you're looking for is "unitary executive" It's not. Unitary executive theory holds that Congress has no power to wall of inherent executive power from the President or to assign powers to the executive branch but deny the President control over them, which is problematic and IMO based on a tendentious (but ag least tenuously defensible) reading of Article II, but it is a far cry from unbound executvie dictatorship. Which is not to say that there isn't some overlap between people arguing for the unitary executive theory and those actually pursuing unbound executive dictatorship, but they are not the same thing Those pursuing unitary executive theory I consider political opponents, those seeking executive dictatorship unbound by law are enemies of the Constitution.
  - ck2 1y ago
    Congress is doing almost exactly what Germany's parliament did for Hitler in 1930s: Enabling Act essentially one person rule, make all the judges not going along with it resign (or executed) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933