#checksandbalances — Public Fediverse posts

TIL about Parliamentary powers to Order Documents be produced (OPD) from the govt. The NSW’s Premier doesn’t like it, apparently. There’s a lot he doesn’t like, protests for instance, or transparency, and even free speach. He’s a peculiar one this one. He’d fit in well as a Liberal Premier.

https://thepoint.com.au/explainers/260722-what-are-orders-for-documents-and-why-do-they-have-chris-minns-talking-about-a-cabal

#WestminsterSystem #NSWPol #NSWLabor #ChrisMinns #ODP #ChecksAndBalances #NSWLegislativeCouncil

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

Regarding this #SpecialGovernmentEmployee shit:

#AdolphMusk is still breaking the law in ways that indicate a #coup.

U.S. #Lawyers! Or #lawstudents! Why can't some special branch of U.S. law enforcement show up at Elon's house and say 'You're under arrest'?

Since Trump LITERALLY said on camera that his mistress #ElonMuskrat does nothing without his o.k., then Trump signed off on stuff that overrides the constitution, U.S. law, and eliminates #checksandbalances. #Project2025 be damned. How is he not arrested too?

Trump Judge Effectively Names Himself President | Terry A. Doughty says he gets to decide who the FBI, DHS, HHS, and the Justice Department can talk to.

https://prospect.org/justice/2023-07-06-trump-judge-effectively-names-himself-president/

#TrumpJudge #PresidentialPower #ExecutiveBranch #GovernmentOversight #JudicialAuthority #ChecksAndBalances #Politics #News