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Igel

(37,426 posts)
5. It's a question.
Thu May 8, 2025, 11:49 PM
May 2025

And Trump is pushing it to SCOTUS. Hard and fast.

SCOTUS has been less bumblebee and more gnat. Duck like a bumblebee and sting like something that doesn't want to engage.

If executive authority is invested in the President, what does that mean? Some? 18.3%? 50%? 91.9%? 100%?

If 100%, does that mean the ability to hire means the ability to fire? Oh, wait, I've heard claims that's been adjudicated.

Given that Congress has powers far broader than those that wrote the Constitution ever intended, how to apportion those powers? Some are judicial, some intrude on states, some are executive. But if Congress establishes an executive power with a subservient judicial portion ... Is that Article I, II, III ... I know, it's Article Ii, i imaginary.

Yeah, complex plane and all that.

Dunno. I can preach and pontificate ... But asked, way back when, if I wanted to be a minister my response was "hell, no!" I'll preach Newton, Maxwell, de Broglie, Feynman, quantum indeterminacy/entanglement and Hubble tension and soul = meat ... and even LRDs ... But not this.

As for SCOTUS, in the past the attitude was that SCOTUS = what the law is.

Flip red/blue, don't wanna say, "They say what the law is, as long as I agree." Not, at least, examining--closely, over days, without outside preaching--what their reasoning is. Now, if only MSM would say "reasoning" and not "results."

I like process, not results. Fix the process if you don't like the results; don't trash the process, if reasoned and reasonable, if the results suck.

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