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🗓️ 20 May 2025
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In a legal sleight of hand, Republicans want to strip judges of their power to enforce rulings — because holding Trump in contempt might actually work…
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0:35.1 | of powers. With almost no mention by our mainstream corporate press, Republicans |
0:40.3 | in the House of Representatives are proposing to end all checks on the power of Donald Trump, |
0:45.2 | effectively ending the American experiment of a Democratic Republic. It's shockingly anti-American. |
0:52.2 | Since the only branch of government standing against Trump right now is the |
0:55.5 | courts, they believe they've found a way to end that resistance. Here's the back story. The grand |
1:03.3 | invention of our founders, cribbed from the Iroquois Confederacy and following an outline Montescu |
1:09.0 | suggested based on his reading about Native Americans, |
1:12.9 | was a three branches of government system where each branch would act as a check on the power of the other two. |
1:20.1 | Article 1, Congress solely controls the ability to declare war, raise taxes, and spend money. |
1:26.5 | All spending and taxation must originate in the |
1:28.8 | House of Representatives, and Congress also has oversight power and the power of the purse with regard to |
1:34.1 | both the President and the Supreme Court. They can even defund either and have the power to pass |
1:39.8 | laws limiting what the courts can rule on, as well as the power to limit presidential behavior. |
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