They just don’t care

Trump’s administration is now openly defying a federal judge’s order pertaining to his freeze of federal grant money.

A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ordered subordinates to halt the disbursement of millions of dollars in federal grant funding. This is despite U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell ordering FEMA to immediately disburse the money, as it had already been appropriated by Congress.

Stacey Street, who is the director of FEMA’s Office of Grant Administration, ordered the office to pause the release of funds for “emergency preparedness, homeland security, firefighting, protecting churches from terrorism and tribal security” in an email with the subject line: “URGENT: Holds on awards.” The email specifically called for holds on “all open awards, all years (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024).

These funds were appropriated by Congress and signed into law by the sitting president.

The current administration is violating the Constitution, and ignoring the Separation of Powers instilled in it that requires Congress to create the bills related to appropriations, and the President at the time has the ability to veto or sign the bill into law.

After a law is passed, the Judicial branch of government has the responsibility to interpret the Constitutionality of the law. That is their primary function.

Democracy only works when the 3 branches of government stay in their lane. Checks and Balances are in place to eliminate any one branch from doing whatever they want, however they want, whenever they want.

If this administration wants to deny the funding for FEMA while they are in office, then do it with appropriations (if any) put into law under their watch. Oh, but wait! This Congress, both Senate and House – with a Republican majority can’t even agree on what, how, or when to legislate the upcoming budget.

Retracting appropriations that were granted in years before taking office is wrong.

The idiots that continue to speak as though the judicial branch is out of line, and wrong in their rulings should never have taken the oath of office. By taking an oath while stating you would uphold the Constitution and now say and do the things that you are doing – you lied.

Let’s just see how well stripping FEMA of its responsibility works when the Tornados rip apart the homes in the middle of the country, or the Hurricanes devastate the south later this year, or the forest fires, mud slides, and flooding, occur. Let’s just see how many folks will continue to support the actions of this administration when times of real hardship and need occur.

These actions are strictly political, with no regard for the people that it will truly hurt.

This administration is so petty, uncaring, and reminiscent of an immature child.

Presidential Reorganization Authority ignored

Wikipedia provided information-

The creation of presidential reorganization authority was foreshadowed with the passage of the Overman Act in 1918, which allowed the president to consolidate government agencies, though abolishing any specific department was prohibited.

First fully extended in 1932, presidential reorganization authority has been authorized on 16 occasions.

The Reorganization Act of 1949 was the last full statute enacted from scratch until the Reorganization Act of 1977; reorganizations occurring between the 1949 and 1977 statutes took the form of amendment and extension of the 1949 law.

The Reorganization Act of 1939 defined the reorganization plan as its own kind of presidential directive. Previously, the delegated authority had been exercised using executive orders.

As of 2017, the last major reorganization of the government using presidential reorganization authority was during the administration of Dwight Eisenhower.

All subsequent cases of the invocation of presidential reorganization authority has been to make more minor, corrective adjustments.

The last reorganization authority was passed by Congress in 1984, although there have been proposals to reinstate it since then.

In 2002 George W. Bush requested the president be granted permanent reorganization authority. No such authorization was extended.

Also in 2002, the National Commission on the Public Service proposed extending presidential reorganization authority to substantially restructure the executive branch which, it contended, had become incoherent in the level of overlapping jurisdiction and different management structures.

During the presidency of Barack Obama, Obama requested reorganization authority from Congress which he said he would use to restructure the Department of Commerce, followed by less specific modifications to other agencies. Under Obama’s plan, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would have been transferred to the Department of the Interior while the rest of the Department of Commerce would be merged with the Small Business Administration and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and renamed. The authorization was not granted. – Thanks, Wikipedia!

There is a right and wrong way to go about reorganizing government entities, and what is happening under Musk, falls in the wrong way category. Much of what he is doing will most likely be deemed unconstitutional, when it gets to the Judicial branch.

After all, that is what dictators do.

Realizing that he might not be allowed to utilize the presidential authority (without Congressional approval), Trump decides to just ignore the legislative branch totally.

The Republicans have the majority of seats in the House and the Senate. Perhaps, the president is NOT confident that a majority of members of Congress from his own party will simply allow the king to do whatever he wants to. Some of the Republican Congress persons are smart enough to realize, that sooner or later, they will need to face their constituents to explain why their world went to crap under their watch.

Trump will be gone after this cycle is done, but Republican Congress persons hoping to extend their political career won’t have the luxury of running away.

SCOTUS welcomes us to Westeros

We were just assured that we do indeed live in Westeros, by the SCOTUS. The throne enjoys absolute immunity, where the King can do whatever he wants to do (as long as it is an “official” act!)

Long live the King!

Any usurper to the crown beware!

As long as the king declares it as an official act, those wishing to replace him could lose their mind, and their head as well.

This ruling nullifies everything the patriots fought for during the Revolutionary War. The forefathers were clearly mistaken, and we do have our own King George after all.

It has also been clarifed that we only have 2 branches of government. The Republican branch and the Democratic branch. Forget the Judicial branch, as they have decided to rule strictly along political lines. There is the republican view on interpreting “the law”, and the democratic view on interpreting “the law”. Or is it the “conservative” and “liberal” view? Maybe, I’m not sure,,,

In any case, with this interpretation on presidential immunity, the sitting president could declare an official act as the Military commander and chief, to eliminate his opponents and not been criminally charged. He could just make up lies and stories about the usurpers, which would justify his actions!

Wouldn’t it be interesting to see how things might go, if the current President took executive action (an official act), and declared the SCOTUS 6, enemies of the state and locked them up!

It isn’t a coup, if the act is an “official” one!

It isn’t a crime, if the act is an “official: one!

The Throne is Immune!

Friggin idiots