Jonathan Darman
@jonathandarman.bsky.social
Journalist and historian. Author of BECOMING FDR and LANDSLIDE.
This, for example, is not the sort of thing you say about a country with a functioning Constitutional order:
February 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This, for example, is not the sort of thing you say about a country with a functioning Constitutional order:
Reposted by Jonathan Darman
A spending law, passed by Congress and signed by the President, sets the policy per Article I of the Constitution. A new President can't unilaterally override that policy, even temporarily. And that's the point of this provision of the ICA -- to enforce Congress's power of the purse.
January 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A spending law, passed by Congress and signed by the President, sets the policy per Article I of the Constitution. A new President can't unilaterally override that policy, even temporarily. And that's the point of this provision of the ICA -- to enforce Congress's power of the purse.
If this guy is supposed to be "our Einstein," is it really too much to expect him to understand the very specific historical imagery he is conjuring with his actions and words?
January 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
If this guy is supposed to be "our Einstein," is it really too much to expect him to understand the very specific historical imagery he is conjuring with his actions and words?