Submission + - How the looming trump constitutional crisis could play out (substack.com)
hwstar writes: The battle between the Trump administration and the federal courts regarding access to the Treasury's payment system is a means for Trump to rule by edict. The Lucian Truscott Newsletter says:
"Seize control of those $6 trillion in disbursements, and you negate Congress’ power of the purse and, POOF! The administration becomes a dictatorship controlling:
1.) the execution of the laws,
2.) the law-making power, and
3.) the appropriating power.
The last two are specifically reserved to Congress in Article I. of the Constitution. Musk’s mission would be achieved. No further action is required because the administration can cut funding to whatever and whoever they want. They have the total control of totalitarianism."
So the question becomes what will happen if the Trump administration ignores all court orders regarding this matter?
The article goes on to state:
"There is talk in the administration of ignoring the District Court’s Order and seizing control of the U.S. Treasury disbursements by fiat. That would bring a Gunfight at the OK Corral resolution, rather than an orderly legal resolution. The District Court could order anyone violating its Order to be held in contempt and order its U.S. Marshals or the Military to arrest them. All sorts of possible scenarios could flow from that, including potential “blue on blue” violence. In other words, inter-departmental violence: U.S. Marshalls, or the FBI vs the Military.
That is my fear. It is similar to nuclear war. Once blue on blue violence starts, it can easily become uncontrollable and require the military to intervene, which last happened at the start of the Civil War. That would be a very bad result. However, one could argue that it’s better than a totalitarian dictatorship."
Will the Military intervene? Maybe:
"The military has done it twice. In 1861, before Abraham Lincoln was sworn in, the sitting President James Buchanan ordered General in Chief of the Army Winfield Scott to turn over control of the Army’s forts and arsenals in the south to Southern seceding states. Scott refused on grounds it was an illegal order and ordered the Federal Forces to resist. On January 6, 2021, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley was ordered by the Acting Secretary of Defense, per the White House and presumably the President, to stand down and refuse the request of the Speaker of the House and the Vice President to defend the capital with the National Guard and expel the insurrectionists from the Capitol, in order that the complete the counting of the presidential electoral votes could take place as mandated by law. General Milley complied with the Speaker and the Vice President’s request and ordered the National Guard to clear the Capitol. President Trump has recently indicated he may have General Milley court martialed for that and other actions but so far, he has not done so."
"Seize control of those $6 trillion in disbursements, and you negate Congress’ power of the purse and, POOF! The administration becomes a dictatorship controlling:
1.) the execution of the laws,
2.) the law-making power, and
3.) the appropriating power.
The last two are specifically reserved to Congress in Article I. of the Constitution. Musk’s mission would be achieved. No further action is required because the administration can cut funding to whatever and whoever they want. They have the total control of totalitarianism."
So the question becomes what will happen if the Trump administration ignores all court orders regarding this matter?
The article goes on to state:
"There is talk in the administration of ignoring the District Court’s Order and seizing control of the U.S. Treasury disbursements by fiat. That would bring a Gunfight at the OK Corral resolution, rather than an orderly legal resolution. The District Court could order anyone violating its Order to be held in contempt and order its U.S. Marshals or the Military to arrest them. All sorts of possible scenarios could flow from that, including potential “blue on blue” violence. In other words, inter-departmental violence: U.S. Marshalls, or the FBI vs the Military.
That is my fear. It is similar to nuclear war. Once blue on blue violence starts, it can easily become uncontrollable and require the military to intervene, which last happened at the start of the Civil War. That would be a very bad result. However, one could argue that it’s better than a totalitarian dictatorship."
Will the Military intervene? Maybe:
"The military has done it twice. In 1861, before Abraham Lincoln was sworn in, the sitting President James Buchanan ordered General in Chief of the Army Winfield Scott to turn over control of the Army’s forts and arsenals in the south to Southern seceding states. Scott refused on grounds it was an illegal order and ordered the Federal Forces to resist. On January 6, 2021, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley was ordered by the Acting Secretary of Defense, per the White House and presumably the President, to stand down and refuse the request of the Speaker of the House and the Vice President to defend the capital with the National Guard and expel the insurrectionists from the Capitol, in order that the complete the counting of the presidential electoral votes could take place as mandated by law. General Milley complied with the Speaker and the Vice President’s request and ordered the National Guard to clear the Capitol. President Trump has recently indicated he may have General Milley court martialed for that and other actions but so far, he has not done so."
