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Regarding the president’s power to manage the government, the Supreme Court has spoken
By Andrea Widburg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/regarding_the_president_s_power_to_manage_the_government_the_supreme_court_has_spoken.html
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There is also this. This has been my question all along, if DOGE Found that $516 BILLION was issued by the Treasury Department fraudulently and illegally, then how does a judge have the authority to force this administration to continue those illegal and fraudulent payments?
“GOOD BEHAVIOR”
Excerpts:
JUDGMENT COMES
federal judge ordered corruption to continue.
No metaphor. No exaggeration. Pure fact.
When DOGE exposed that 60% of NIH grant money vanishes into “overhead”—a rate that would bankrupt any private enterprise—they moved to fix it. To bring it down to 15%. To stop the hemorrhaging of taxpayer dollars.
The judge’s response? Mandate the waste continue.
Consider the implications. Not interpreting law. Not protecting rights. Not settling disputes. Just raw protection of systematic fraud.
But that was merely the opening salvo.
In Rhode Island, Judge McConnell revealed something more sinister.
After channeling $700,000 into Democratic campaigns—including direct contributions to senators who confirmed his appointment—he didn’t just rule against reform.
He commanded the President of the United States to continue routing money through compromised channels.
But this crisis transcends interpretation.
These aren’t rulings about law. These aren’t disputes about precedent. These aren’t questions of judicial philosophy.
These are direct orders to perpetuate proven fraud. Commands to maintain documented waste. Demands to destroy evidence before investigators can access it.
The Founders foresaw this moment.
Evidence vanishing hours before investigators arrive.
The Founders understood this darkness would come. They knew power seduces, authority corrupts, and black robes can conceal darker purposes.
That’s why Article III, Section 1 exists.
The Article (story) goes on.
https://eko.substack.com/p/good-behavior
More on Judge McConnell:
This “American Thinker” article is about an 1867 Supreme Court decision and NOT a current Supreme Court decision.
It doesn’t have to be a “current” decision to be law. As long as the decision hasn’t been countermanded by a more recent decision that is more on point it’s good to go. Even then the current Supreme Court would look at both decisions and then make a ruling.
“Lurker360” post: “Regarding the president’s power to manage the government, the Supreme Court has spoken”
Being a helpful courteous type, I was alerting people that there was no SCOTUS opinion that dropped today.
What was the expiration date for the 1867 decision?
SAME AS THIS Case Ruling – Decatur v. Paulding, 39 U.S. 497 (1840)
Posted on ” X ” by Jake Walker and then linked by REVOLVER Article
https://x.com/jake_w/status/1889558411739619463
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/39/497/
MAYBE the Current ” judges ” NEED TO GO ATTEND –> REFRESHER CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Classes ?
Where is the harm in letting people know the article was about precedent and not something that happened today? Do you find that offensive?
What’s the harm in letting people learn about existing relevant case law???? Too boring?
It’s what makes the legal world go round lil’buddy.
The same expiration date for the constitution?
Stew… You think I post without reading things for comprehension first?
It’s actually about two supreme court rulings, but whatever.
Perhaps you know nothing of the author? She’s a seasoned veteran of the legal field, and a good writer.
OK so it was not as exciting as a brand spankin’ new ruling, so forgive me for sharing the relevant legal precedents.
From the AT article:
“no decision has argued away the fact that judiciary cannot use nationwide injunctions to control the operations of the federal bureaucracy.”
I would certainly hope that the judiciary cannot compel the president or his administration to actually violate the law. In this case, paying out money fraudulently or that has not even been authorized, as is the case of the Treasury. Some of their payments had not been authorized in 40 years.
Perzactly TT.
VAERS only captures less than 1% of vaccine injuries.
https://vigilantfox.news/p/rfk-jr-drops-a-stunning-announcement
Remember during the Covid years when people frequently talked about trying, sometimes over and over again, to enter a case, and were unable to do so?
The program required the information to be entered by a doctor, it was time-consuming, doctors wouldn’t, it was complicated, the website often was down or otherwise uncooperative, and nurses and others who tried to make entries were strong-armed not to, and on and on.
Naomi Wolff used to talk about the extreme inefficiency of the VAERS system.
Yep. Many nurses were complaining about the fact that stuff couldn’t be entered onto the VAERS site.
That was admitted by David Kessler – when it was implemented (1986/7); it was designed to *not* expose iatrogenesis aka injuries maimings & deaths accurately. ‘Capture a signal’ was the ostensible purpose; and ‘signals’ have never been acknowledged or regarded.
“A report to VAERS does not mean the vaccine caused the event.A VAERS report alone does not indicate whether a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event. Only scientists and public health professionals can make this determination after thorough investigation.
…
While serious adverse events can happen after vaccination, they are rarely caused by the vaccine….”
And there is *never* an actual investigation to find out the cause. That’s how it is both ‘ a safety surveillance system’ AND the out they use to say the VAERS data is unreliable; a cover-up
The “Vx safety” game has been rigged from the start folks. Approaching an unrigging of VAERS in 2010 was too much Sunlight to allow… CDC abandoned the upgrade project when initial results of less than 1% were indisuptable…
This is the study he references.
{ https://truthsnitch.com/2017/10/24/cdc-silence-million-dollar-harvard-project-charged-upgrading-vaccine-safety-surveillance-system/#sthash.VTZJGddL.8nb1LujE.dpbs }
Here’s the CDC quote link – too late to edit
{ https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety-systems/vaers/index.html }
Maxine Waters not the brightest bulb in the box, basically a moron, IQ probably around 90, opposes DOGE because, “we don’t know what all they’ve got on us….our bank accounts.”
I wonder how much she’s received illegally. Time for a financial audit.
…” Time for a financial audit.”….
On every complainer and every Judge who’s holding up the show.
It’s crazy how these people are outing themselves!
Douglass Mackey
@DougMackeyCase
BREAKING: Six top DOJ officials resign over order to drop Eric Adams case — AP
Those resigning include Acting US Attorney Danielle Sassoon, Acting Head of the Public Integrity Section John Keller, Rob Heberle, Jenn Clarke, and Marco Palmieri of Public Integrity, and Kevin Driscoll of the DOJ’s criminal division.
Bye bye!
No news yet on whether Bill Gullotta of DOJ Public Integrity has resigned in shame yet.
Cont reading thread…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1890199954683056539.html
Breanna Morello
@BreannaMorello
Douglass Mackey DOES NOT want a pardon from President Donald Trump.
Instead he wants to continue his fight for the First Amendment.
Mackey was sentenced to 7 months in prison for posting Hillary Clinton memes.
Cont…
A tweet from He/Him Dem rep. Ron Widen re. DOGE entering IRS:
Wyden.
Douglass Mackey
@DougMackeyCase
BREAKING: Trump Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove accepts New York US Attorney Danielle Sassoon’s resignation in explosive letter
“You lost sight of the oath that you took when you started at the Department of Justice by suggesting that you retain discretion to interpret the Constitution in a manner inconsistent with the policies of a democratically elected President and a Senate-confirmed Attorney General.”
Full letter below
Cont reading thread…👇
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1890225341026734591.html?utm_campaign=topunroll
This is GREAT – DOGE is winning
{ https://notthebee.com/article/the-cartoon-version-of-elon-musk-and-doge-cutting-usaid-is-the-funniest-thing-youll-see-all-day }
Tony Seruga
@TonySeruga
They are so funny to watch them implode! It is absolutely delicious!
FACT: It was the Biden Administration that originally ordered the $400 million in armored Teslas! The contract was initially included in the U.S. State Department’s 2025 procurement forecast under the Biden administration and included other armored vehicles, including a BMW.
Cont…
State Department says Tesla wasn’t a awarded $400M contract to produce ‘armored’ cars
Excerpt:
The spokesperson told MSNBC that the Biden administration asked the State Department to “explore interest from private companies to produce electric vehicles.” In response to the request last year, the agency asked for information to “solicit interest.”
-snip-
The budget document cited in various news reports was a procurement forecast for 2025 — essentially a list of prospective purchases. The spreadsheet entry, labeled “Armored Tesla (Production Units)” and last modified on Dec. 13, before Trump took office, noted that the potential purchase was still in the “PLANNING” phase. It did not specify the model of car from Tesla, which does not manufacture an “armored” vehicle.
-snip-
Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, threw cold water on the issue. “I’m pretty sure Tesla isn’t getting $400M. No one mentioned it to me, at least,” he wrote on X at 1:30 a.m. ET Thursday.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/state-department-says-tesla-not-214954144.html
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1890065507421999134
…” A group of anti-DOGE protesters crashed a House hearing this week, demanding that funding be restored to an AIDS related program called PEPFAR.
As the protesters were being escorted out of the room, Florida Republican Rep. Brian Mast pointed out that this particular program was found to be life saving, and already had its funding restored.”….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/ignorant-anti-doge-protesters-crash-house-hearing-get/
That’s unfortunate – PEPFAR is money laundering, like the others.
….” You won’t believe this twist! Judge Paul Engelmayer, who just BLOCKED a USAID reform, is married to Emily Mandestam, who works for “The New York Association For New Americans” – an NGO that’s swimming in USAID cash! “…….
….” The reason why Judge McConnell, a Democrat donor and activist, wants Trump to restore funding is because his daughter, Catherine McConnell, is currently employed by the same Department of Education that President Trump and @elonmusk want to audit and DEFUND.
She was appointed by Joe Biden and now her Dad is abusing his power to protect her paycheck.”…..
I believe DOGE is tip toeing through the fraud incrementally. They are starting with the ridiculous stuff, so Americans can become aware of the situation and digest it piece by piece. But what lies at the end stages of the discovery, will probably rattle us all to the core.
https://truthsocial.com/@JohnRich/113996933318207251
Chris Coons’ Drops Desperate Attack on Trump About Foreign Aid, Then Elon Wrecks Him
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/02/13/chris-coons-post-about-medications-n2185571