Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Just To Underline What Trump v US Did

He seems nice. To his rich constituents, anyway.
The responsibilities and authority of the White House Counsel and Attorney General are also clear. And they aren’t what the White House Counsel thinks they are.

I’ll say it again: the Roberts Court read presidential immunity into the Constitution, imagining they were protecting the office and they would be praised for their efforts. They overruled Roe because it read a right of privacy into the constitution. 

But it’s a very different matter to read the words of the Constitution out of the law. The first section of the 14th Amendment is clear about birthright citizenship, as found in Wong Kim Ark. The authority of Congress to allocate funds is clear in Art. I of the Constitution, and in the Impoundment Control Act. If the Roberts Court tried to rule the way Trump wants them to on either issue, they would lose all credibility and authority, and probably unwind matters back to before Marbury. I’m quite serious about that. If the Court usurped the plain language of the Constitution that egregiously, they would lose all authority. Sort of like this:
Pretty sure that has to be authorized by Congress.  See, Art. I, U.S. Constitution. I guess he’s decided he can’t buy it (without Congressional support and funding), so he’s going to make it a state. But that requires Greenland petitioning Congress and establishing a constitutional democratic government. Being a part of Denmark, it’s still a monarchy.

He’s already walking that back, too. Pretty soon he’ll just stop talking about it, and drop it down the memory hole. 🕳️ 

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