Showing posts with label line-item veto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label line-item veto. Show all posts
Friday, May 2, 2025

Once again, Trump is wrong because the executive does not possess the line-item veto

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  Trump signs executive order to stop federal funding for NPR and PBS   This is simply another example of executive branch overreach.   Fund...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

House Democrats correctly doubt whether any funding deal they agree to will be respected by Elon Musk and DOGE, hurtling the federal government toward a shutdown

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 ... many Democrats are pressing leadership to withhold support for any spending plan that doesn’t take steps to ensure the allocated funds...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Democrat Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) is correct: Elon Musk is an unelected interloper, with no authority and no legitimacy who makes a mockery of the appropriations process

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   Musk exercises nonexistent dictatorial line-item-veto powers over spending and personnel as a "super cabinet" official who was ...
Friday, February 7, 2025

The legal system is about to be clogged with multiple battles over Trump's second and imperial presidency, which has deployed Elon Musk as the embodiment of the line-item veto which it does not possess

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It's a strange day when I find myself agreeing with Ed Markey. . . . “The courts, if they interpret the Constitution correctly, are goi...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Welcome to end stage libertarianism: The executive branch of the United States does not possess a line-item veto power

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 What Trump is doing will be challenged all the way to the Supreme Court, which already ruled the 1996 version of the line item veto unconst...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Republican enthusiasm for the Line Item Veto began under Reagan and was their version of the imperial presidency

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No different than Reagan's enthusiasm for federal mandates like EMTALA, which is the proximate cause of ObamaCare. But J. T. Young doe...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Republican Gov. John Kasich Pulls An Obama, Suspends Ohio Medicaid Law That Displeases Him

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No doubt that will please Ann Coulter, who loves it when governors act like dictators . The Wall Street Journal reports,  here : Mr. Kasich ...