Tuesday, January 28, 2025

“I Declare Bankruptcy!”

We’ll start here:
The Supreme Court told Trump nothing he does is illegal and he has concluded that means taking away all power from Congress too.
And then:
Dear Internet: 
#SCOTUS holding that the President can't be prosecuted for official acts does *not* mean, under *any* non-frivolous reading, that the *federal government,* including all of its officers, is immune from civil suits for *its* official acts. 
There's just no equivalency between the two. 
(This is for everyone who keeps responding to posts about how crazy stuff that the Trump administration is going to get blocked in court by waving their hands and shouting "immunity." That's not how any of this works.)
The irony here is that the Trump administration is waving their hands and shouting “immunity!” Sort of. 

Thanks to the wholly unexpected invention of “presidential immunity,” Trump & Co. think they can get the Supremes to invent other favorable constitutional arguments, like erasing birthright citizenship from the 14th amendment, or ignoring Article. I, sec. 9, cl, 7 ("No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law ..."). The challenge intended with the freezing of all grants is to the Impoundment Control Act if 1974, a statute even Thomas enforced in a recent decision.  Trump figures they already won the lottery, why not just shoot the moon?🌒 

Not that we’re dealing with the brightest here:
Lawyers don’t disagree on this. Congressional appropriations are public law, just like the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is law. The Constitution even says so.

And Trump’s act was presumptively illegal. That’s how some of this works.

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