#FederalAgencies will be in charge of setting up #JobProtections for their own employees that accuse them of wrongdoing, such as violating the #law or wasting money [who decides what is waste?]. That would be a change from the past, when an #independent office known as the Office of the Special Counsel [#OSC] handled #whistleblower disclosures from most civilian #FederalWorkers.
#Trump #law #labor #ScheduleF #Congress #ChecksAndBalances #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #MafiaState
#Trump will have the power to select which government positions will lose their #JobProtections, according to the statement.
‼️The Trump admin is also changing how long-standing #legal #protections that prohibit #US #government agencies from retaliating against #whistleblowers will be enforced, according to the statement.
#law #labor #ScheduleF #democracy #Constitution #Congress #ChecksAndBalances #independence #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny #MafiaState
The overhaul, released by the Office of Personnel Management [#OPM], fulfills a campaign promise for #Trump to strip #JobProtections from #FederalWorkers that his team deems to be "influencing" #government policy. It is the biggest change to the rules governing the #CivilService in more than a century. Trump called the overhaul "#ScheduleF" during his first administration.
#law #democracy #Congress #ChecksAndBalances #independence #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny #MafiaState
#Trump tightens control over 50,000 #FederalWorkers
The Trump admin on Thursday finalized its overhaul of the #US government's #CivilService system, according to a #government statement, giving the #president the power to hire & fire an estimated 50,000 career #federal employees.
#law #democracy #Constitution #Congress #ChecksAndBalances #independence #ScheduleF #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny #MafiaState
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-expand-his-control-over-federal-workers-2026-02-05/
Bundesrichterin stoppt Trumps Angriff auf das Wahlrecht und erinnert ihn an eine einfache Wahrheit: Die Verfassung steht über ihm. – #ChecksAndBalances scheinen also doch noch nicht gänzlich außer Kraft gesetzt zu sein. Immerhin ein Lichtblick. tinyurl.com/4evc7t75
Bundesrichterin stoppt Trumps Angriff auf das Wahlrecht und erinnert ihn an eine einfache Wahrheit: Die Verfassung steht über ihm. – #ChecksAndBalances scheinen also doch noch nicht gänzlich außer Kraft gesetzt zu sein. Immerhin ein Lichtblick.
A quotation from Abraham Lincoln
The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1848-02-15) to William H. Herndon
More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/8182…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abrahamlincoln #abelincoln #America #checksandbalances #congress #Constitution #declarationofwar #founders #power #president #war #warpowers #warmaking #autocracy #king #monarch
Stephen Miller complained about an "unelected judge" who ruled against Trump.
David French replied: "A judge who was nominated and confirmed according to the constitutional process just issued a ruling interpreting the law, holding that the administration was lawless.mIf you disagree with the ruling, you can appeal. That's how the law works."
#justice #politics #ChecksAndBalances #RuleOfLaw
I have had this nagging question about why federal impeachment cases in the US are tried by the Senate, rather than the Supreme Court. I am reading pages 15 to 25 of this article from 1970, which not only clarify the rationale for the current process of impeachment, but may also explain why securing a conviction is so rare.
https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol39/iss1/1/
#1787ConstitutionalConvention #checksAndBalances #commonLaw #impeachment #legalHistory #Philadelphia #SCOTUS #USConstitution #USSenate
If you’ve read Machiavelli, especially “Discourses on Livy”, which is actually his major work (“The Prince” is not) you know his emphasis on Virtu of the people and elites as what holds Republics together. Machiavelli thought that Republics were the best form of government and that the greatest feat was to create or maintain a Republic: he was not a fan of autocratic government.
To summarize […]
https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-wisdom-of-machiavellian-virtu-why-america-is-losing-its-bill-of-rights-constitutional-virtues/
A friendly reminder to our duly elected lawmakers in Washington as they debate a bill funding the DHS: as members of Congress, you hold the power of the purse, per Article I S7.C1 and S9.C7 of the Constitution. You decide whether to raise taxes and how much, and there is no mandate to fund a government agency. I hope that advice proves useful.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/ice-alex-pretti-minnesota-congress-republicans
#appropriationsBill #checksAndBalances #DHS #governmentShutdown #powerOfThePurse #tariffs #taxation #USCongress #USPolitics
Reasons to be hopeful this year. Will the MAGA coalition finally collapse? Will Congress finally realize its obligation to check the presidency and leverage in full the threat of impeachment or the 25th Amendment?
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5701489-trumps-coalition-is-falling-apart/
https://reason.com/2026/01/22/greenland-as-a-stress-test-for-maga-loyalty/
#25thAmendment #checksAndBalances #DHS #Greenland #impeachment #ICE #MAGA #TrumpAdministration #USCongress #USPolitics #Venezuela
Bro, impeachment is awesome. Americans should do it more often.
"Are you board of me yet?" (🥶 he never said that)
This is his #checksandbalances thing?
"Imagine (midsize country) you’re offered a permanent seat on the #unsecuritycouncil, but you have to pay the #secretarygeneral of the #unitednations $1 billion
This is something like what Donald #Trump is now offering world leaders
The U.S. president has sent letters of invitation to various heads of government to join a new Board of Peace, which he will chair"
Prof. #ScottLucas #TimesRadio #TrumpReport
Having a political opinion ‘can now get you killed’ in the US | Scott Lucas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1g6hMR7Q2s
#democracy #participation #justice #ruleOfLaw #checksAndBalances
#usa #us #trump #billionaire #looter #kleptocrat #fascist #nazi #sectarian #terror #maffia
And #Trump, who said he was elected to restore law & order, reiterated that he was willing to invoke the #InsurrectionAct & deploy the #military inside the #UnitedStates & federalize some #NationalGuard units if *he* felt it was important to do so.
#law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #MartialLaw #despotism #autocracy
On the domestic front, #Trump suggested that #judges only have #power to restrict his domestic policy agenda — from the deployment of the #NationalGuard to the imposition of #tariffs — “under certain circumstances.”
But he was already considering workarounds. He raised the possibility that if his tariffs issued under emergency authorities were struck down by #SCOTUS, he could repackage them as licensing fees.
#law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #MartialLaw #autocracy
War Powers Act 1973: Nach Vietnam geschaffen, begrenzt Präsidenten-Macht. Kongress muss binnen 48h informiert werden, Einsätze auf 60 Tage begrenzt ohne Kriegserklärung. Letzte offizielle: 2. Weltkrieg. Trump umgeht dies – Senat reagiert jetzt. #Constitution #ChecksAndBalances 7/
