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In particular according to SCOTUS.

If you’re a star they let you do it

This framing resonates with me b/c it is explicit about who took what action, in stark terms. Illegal. Vought. Killed. Put those in heavy rotation. I wonder how that comes through to low-info people, fence-sitters, etc.? My hunch is It would be clarifying and motivating…

ironic since Republicans have historically excoriated the entire philosophy of industrial policy as illegitimately “picking winners.”’🤯

All forms of government fall into one of two categories. At their core, they are all either based on trust or the threat / use of physical force and violence. When a gov’t is not the latter, then it is by default the former. A trust that all have agreed to abide by the laws and the rules.

thanks for the statute references. it’s maddening how plainly illegal their NSF actions are. in other areas too (there are entire sections on mandating it support DEI)

This statute (Public Law 115-402 115th Congress, 2018) says “the Director… working through SBE…” That provision makes no sense if SBE is dead (Edited 11:48 via @skeetsapp.com)

On the positive side, the economic & employment boom that's going to happen when the next Dem POTUS restores as much of this funding as possible will be stimulus levels.

murdered by strangulation

Yep, and all laid out in Project 2025, and being implemented by Vought each day since inauguration, and Dem leaders stand their with a finger up their nose and the other hand taking in Wall Street money. Nice country you got there, wouldn't want anything to happen to it, youse nose what I mean...

Only 30.7% of U.S. voters voted for the (quite reasonable, if perhaps not perfect, but whatever) alternative to DJT. That is too small a number for a country to survive as a liberal democracy.

It is a constitutional crisis because it’s a violation of the law and the constitution itself. It remains that no matter how many people vote for it.

the "will of the people" is only ever something molded and created by the people's leaders. democracy is ultimately just a convenient fiction, but powerful people are always very very real.

Is that the 'Misdemeanor' of high crimes and misdemeanors? It's def. conduct that violates the public trust, whether or not it's a statutory crime. How can we inspire the House to act?

The President does have that power if Congress is an invertebrate.

Read the two santas www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartman...