The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the unlawful dismantling of the NEH: "Congress believed NEH to be essential to the functioning of our democracy, and the public interest would be served by honoring that determination."
No system of rules is self-enforcing. They all require actors within the system to play by the rules.
The system is fine. It provides Congress and the Supreme Court with plenty of tools for checking the power of the president. Failure to use those tools is a failure of the actors, not the system.
Under the current constitution, the Supreme Court and Congress are supposed to be responsible for checking the power of a president.
Both institutions have failed to do so. Perhaps it’s worth considering if it’s not merely the individuals who have failed to prevent tyranny, but the system itself.
JUST IN: Judge rules DOJ canceled grants to the American Bar Association in retaliation for criticizing the Trump administration. He has enjoined the department from terminating the grants on that basis. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
Senior Trump officials attempted to seize control of the Library of Congress yesterday. I analyzed the constitutional and statutory issues arising from Trump's effort to name an alt-Librarian of Congress.
firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/a-constitu...
oh and because they changed the tariffs again today I am legally required to remind you that THEY COULD EXEMPT BANANAS FROM THE TARIFFS AT ANY TIME IT WOULD TAKE FIVE SECONDS AND THEY WONT DO IT
Knowing that banana tariffs are stupid would require having smart people in the White House
So naturally there are none since anyone actually interested in ideas would have been sacked for being Insufficiently sycophantic
Why is the US like this, where someone gets to keep their last top title for the rest of their life?
Other countries don't keep calling their Bill Clintons "President Clinton" until he dies of old age.
*Fascinating* that the next tax bill might need a clarifying the tax reporting requirements of an American pope!
Especially complicated: Americans abroad have to report any foreign accounts over which they have “signature authority”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The sovereign cannot be an agency or instrumentality of itself. The legal issue is which hat Leo wears when taxed. Sovereigns and attendants are immune: suits brought against Benedict XVI and Queen Rania were rejected on FSIA grounds in 2005 (408 F Supp 2d 272) and 2001 (184 F Supp 2d 277).
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
I remember reading a long book on late Roman republican military affairs in French. (One of four copies on the continent.) No children's section to be found.
The difference between say a 1st declension singular nominative and the same but accusative in the classical period would have been but a nasalised a: the ending -am didn't get a strongly pronounced m, instead just nasalising the preceding vowel
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