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Showing posts with label presidential power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label presidential power. Show all posts
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Trump illegally fired surveillance watchdog agency's Democrats, judge rules - POLITICO
Washington-based U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton ruled that Trump's firings of Travis LeBlanc and Ed Felten, two Democratic members on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was unlawful, stating that the board's structure was intended to have a restriction on the president's removal power. As a result, Walton ordered that LeBlanc and Felten remain as board members.
"Such unfettered authority would make the Board and its members beholden to the very authority it is supposed to oversee on behalf of Congress and the American people," Walton, a George W. Bush appointee, said in his ruling. "To hold otherwise would be to bless the President's obvious attempt to exercise power beyond that granted to him by the Constitution and shield the Executive Branch's counterterrorism actions from independent oversight, public scrutiny, and bipartisan congressional insight regarding those actions."…
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Trump orders the government to stop enforcing rules he doesn’t like - The Washington Post
"The conscious effort to slow down enforcement on such a broad scale is something we have never seen in previous administrations," said Donald Kettl, a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. "It amounts to a dramatic assertion of presidential power and authority."…
Monday, March 31, 2025
Trump seeks takeover of elections in a bid for more presidential power - The Washington Post
"It is to reduce turnout by people he thinks won't vote for him," the analyst said...
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Government shutdown looms as Trump asserts new spending powers - The Washington Post
Trump and advisers including budget chief Russell Vought have argued that the president has the power to withhold money that Congress orders spent, arguing that a post-Watergate law that limits that power is unconstitutional. Musk's DOGE team has been unilaterally terminating contracts and pushing to shed federal staff.
Now Democrats say they want assurances from congressional Republican and the White House that the administration will actually spend the money included in any new law preventing a shutdown.
"Money is just being pilfered. They're stealing funds that are supposed to go to American families and businesses," said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Connecticut), the House Democrats' chief negotiator…
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