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The deal #Trump reached with his subordinates relies on a mechanism created by #Congress that legal experts warned was subject to manipulation.

…The whole enterprise is a jarring shock to conventional understanding of the #constitution, raising…profound questions of #PresidentialPower. If allowed to stand, Trump will have managed simultaneously to thwart Congress’s #PowerOfThePurse & the ability of the #courts to police the #SeparationOfPowers.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/politics/trump-fund-legal-questions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.j1A.oWr9.MEVPYndCxS2N&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund Tests Constitutional Limits

The deal the president reached with his own subordinates relies on a mechanism created by Congress that legal experts had warned was subject to manipulation.

The New York Times
May 20 at 8:39pmWeb
Show threadJanKusanagi1d ago

@Nonilex outside of the #USA, this is called "having an #emperor", or "having a #dictator".

The absolute authority, their face everywhere...

Show threadNonya Bidniss1d ago
@Nonilex These fucking headlines! They broke the Constitution a ways back! We are living in a rogue criminal state now! For chrissakes.
Show threadceartas1d ago

@Nonilex

SMFH. Settling a groundless lawsuit by paying $1.776 billion into a slush fund doesn’t “test constitutional limits”. It’s out and out graft.

#fuckNYT