Send this Dog to the Impound!

Timothy Birdnow

Oh? Where was Soda Pop when Joe Biden simply disregarded court orders, such as to stop his student loan forgiveness program? It didn't seem to bother old gray mare back then.

Sotomayor Says Presidents Are Not Monarchs and Must Obey Rulings

Where has she been over sanctuary cities? Where has she been where Immigration law was just disregarded?

Sonia stated:

True, but they also gave the President the power to determine how best to allocate resources and manage the implementation of laws. There is nothing in the Constitution REQUIRING the executive branch to spend money as Congress demands at all times. The President can't raise money of his own but he can sure as hell stop spending money.

In 1803, for instance, Thomas Jefferson saved money when he didn't need all of a $50,000 appropriation for gun boats, for example. And Jefferson was intimately involved with the Constitution, and had Madison there to tell him otherwise (both were Democratic Republicans).History is replete with Presidents refusing to waste money when it has been approved.

What of Joe Biden? He simply refused to build the wall on the Mexican border, even though it was approved by Congress and under construction. We didn't hear a peep out of Sotomayor or any other leftist back then, did we? It was assumed he had the legal authority to not spend the money.

But, but,but... what of The Impoundment Control Act of 1974? Okay, what about it? Congress passed this law (with a veto-proof majority of Democrats) to force Richard Nixon to spend on social programs. But this law is quite explicit, and it requires an exact procedure to compel the President to spend the money. As of yet Congress has not invoked it.

Oh, and Senator Mike Lee has written a bill rescinding the act which has yet to be voted on but has a real chance of passing. Furthermore, it seems like President Trump will challenge it in court and he has a good chance of winning.

That's because the Constitution is quite clear on the President's enumerated powers - he has the authority to decide how federal money will be spent and interpret laws.

The article continues:


They aren't. If you want to get technical the courts never had the authority of judicial review in the Constitution; they granted it to themselves in the case of Marbury v. Madison and have held it ever since.

But most certainly when the President is lawfully executing his duties as enumerated under the Constitution the courts have no say, or are not supposed to, at any rate.

Sotomayor obviously believes she and her activist ilk on the Supreme Court have the final say in everything and veto power the elected officials. That is not the case and never was. Alexander Hamilton argued the Courts were the weakest branch of government (despite being unelected and having no set term of office) because nobody had to listen to them. Sonia should think long and hard on that.

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