Posted on 10/02/2025 12:51:27 PM PDT by Valpal1
This ruling is part of a series of cases in which the Court is scaling back Congress's efforts to control the presidency in the wake of Watergate. An entire structural edifice of government was created to constrain the executive. And the Roberts Court is now dismantling those structures. I was not alive at the time, but I imagine that Watergate felt something like the resistance to the Trump Presidency. I agree with that Trump is completing Nixon’s aborted second term “by attempting to gain control of the executive branch and tame the Administrative State.” But unlike Nixon, Trump is supported by a judiciary that is restoring the separation of powers.
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That era was the big victory for the Deep State.
Trump is “crude”?
He uses very direct, logical language, and Nixon was railroaded for no very good reason.
And it was rotten to see.
Nixon had no interest in reigning in the big government administrative state, he added to it in a big way via creating the EPA. He only got religion on that topic once they started using the deep state on him, then suddenly he was opposed to it.
Note: the deep state definitely took Nixon down. The "incompetent" Watergate burglars were mostly CIA associated men, and Deep Throat who spoon fed everything to the reporters was the deputy head of the FBI. The same players that 40 years later conspired to take down another President, though Trump fought them off.
Trump’s “war” goes back a lot further than Nixon/Burger from the 1970s. Trump is waging war on the administrative state set up in the 1930s.
Seeing the shellacking they received in '72, the Dems acted to geld what they saw as the long series of Republican Presidents about to start.
If there had been anything resembling Fox News, and Nixon had the same pair as President Trump (Nixon was a brilliant man, but not the pugilist our President is) enough spineds could have been stiffened in the Senate to defeat any vote to remove.
Nixon wanted revenue sharing with the states to replace some of the federal bureaucracy. He also didn’t want to spend all the excess money Congress appropriated for some dubious projects. That was the “impounded funds” case, and the courts didn’t let him do it.
I don’t fault him for creating the EPA. The Cuyahoga River was burning and people were convinced that the government should do something about pollution.
Fair enough.
The Deep State (with its very compromised pro Communist internal elements both overseas- possibly as double agents or cutouts for purposes of US policies, as well as domestic agents who illegally acted within the US. To protect their real agent in place as revenge against Richard Nixon). Who was that agent in place and proven without a doubt as a Communist/Soviet agent? Why it is/was Alger Hiss (present at the Yalta Conference, known to Stalin of course and advising... FDR), later Alger Hiss wrote the original charter for... the United Nations. Undeniable evidence from the Venona Transcripts prove Hiss was a life long agent... from Harvard Univ. What a mensch!
World, globalist government styled by legions of Communists. And, they are still at it. There is money to be made- as George Soros, noted German Nazi, whose actual name is Gyorgy Schwartz. Nazis being German LEFTIST Socialists just to the LEFT of middle, but always characterized by ultra Leftist Communists as being to the.... Right (of them of course) and also nowadays called Fascists (which National Socialists were not Fascists. Scholars of history have pointed this out for decades and people do not pay attention). Anti-FA (anti-Faschisti) were always, and are now.. Communists.
Would love to see many judges incarcerated for the activism. There must be a way to hold their feet to the fire when they abandon the law.
Any other branch member can be arrested yet judges are some how immune. That is not right!!
Judges can be removed from the bench by Congress. Oh wait, I think I see the problem...
“Still, these cases are no more about President Trump than they are about President Nixon. They are about the presidency, as an institution.”
This is rather apparent. This is what President Trump is aiming at accomplishing. He deserves praise for taking on this long overdue task.
This is a false narrative.
The Cuyahoga River was burning and Ohio could have done something about pollution if it wanted to. Which, BTW the Ohio EPA was created in 1972 making the federal EPA entirely unnecessary in this context. It was Ohio that was failing. And we suffer because of it to this day.
Nixon was a progressive and deserves every micrometer of blame for it, he took Ohio's failure and cranked the volume up to max. This is the problem with progressives, they punt everything to the federal government as if state action is not just ineffective - state action is looked at as pesky, state action is looked at as unnecessary, or using progressive eugenics lingo, state action is looked at as feebleminded and undesirable.
"We want big government" is what the progressive says.
Big government is exactly what Nixon delivered.
Some rivers run through multiple states. Winds carried acid rain from one state to another. Fifty different emissions standards and fuel economy standards would have made things difficult for the automobile industry. There was going to be a federal agency to deal with such things.
The United State Constitution(might as well mention the 10th amendment) is first. The auto industry is second. Fifty different emissions standards and fuel economy standards would have made things wonderful for the United States Constitution.
"There was going to be a federal agency to deal with such things."
Then we should surrender to the Democrats and stop playing games like we actually believe in something when we don't. What's the point of electing a Trump then? You just undermined everything.
Which brings us back full circle. "I don’t fault him for creating the EPA." You just faulted him (Nixon) for creating the EPA. If there was going to be a federal agency, it didn't have to be Nixon who went for it. It could have been the Democrats.
Why “waged” ??? did they not really wage? What did they do instead of wage? Put double apostrophes around words for no rational reason?
This is my “war” against it.
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