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Nonilex<p>…there are only 2 sources of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> for the use of force abroad – the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> &amp; congressional authorizations for the use of military force (<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AUMF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AUMF</span></a>). …There is no existing AUMF that would authorize the President to use force against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a>. Second, under the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a>’s own interpretation of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ArticleII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArticleII</span></a> of the Constitution, which has become much broader in recent decades &amp; is not necessarily shared by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> or the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>courts</span></a>, </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> in recent decades narrowed the reach of Humphrey's Executor but stopped short of overruling it. In a 2020 ruling that upheld Humphrey's, it said <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ArticleII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArticleII</span></a> gives the president the general power to remove heads of agencies at will, but that the Humphrey's Executor decision had carved out an exception that allowed for-cause removal protections for *certain multi-member, expert agencies*.</p><p>[2020 case was Seila Law LLC v CFPB. The June 29, 2020 decision was 5–4]</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivistCourt</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> set up a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfPowers</span></a> among the federal government's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/coequal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coequal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/executive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>executive</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legislative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legislative</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judicial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>judicial</span></a> branches.</p><p>Proponents of a *conservative* legal doctrine called the "<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitaryExecutive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitaryExecutive</span></a>" theory that envisions vast executive authority for a president portray Humphrey's as wrongly decided. They argue that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ArticleII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArticleII</span></a> gives a president sole authority over the executive branch, including the power to fire heads of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/independent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>independent</span></a> agencies despite protections under <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>But legal scholars who found the rationales unconvincing said there is no principled reason for treating the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Fed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fed</span></a> differently than the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> boards under a series of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> rulings that have upheld for-cause protections for agencies.</p><p>"If the court carves out a special exception for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalReserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalReserve</span></a>, it will appear that the justices are not applying <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ArticleII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArticleII</span></a> but legislating from the bench &amp; substituting their personal policy preferences," said Christine Chabot.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivistCourt</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p><a href="https://secure.everyaction.com/eWhE45xeRESr0m5ZOuJ2ZA2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">secure.everyaction.com/eWhE45x</span><span class="invisible">eRESr0m5ZOuJ2ZA2</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/FreeSpeechForPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeechForPeople</span></a> </p><p>Use the script below to call your U.S. House reps at 202. 224. 3121 and urge them to launch an impeachment investigation. </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AOC</span></a> has introduced articles of impeachment against <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> arseholes <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ClarenceThomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClarenceThomas</span></a> and <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/SamuelAlito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SamuelAlito</span></a> for <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/HighCrimesAndMisdemeanors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HighCrimesAndMisdemeanors</span></a> in violation of <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ArticleII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArticleII</span></a> of the U.S. Constitution, making them unfit to continue serving on SCOTUS. </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/USAShitShow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAShitShow</span></a></p>