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It’s the #LibraryOfCongress.
But #Trump claims it’s his.
Trump’s new target in his campaign to expand #ExecutivePower: the Library of Congress. Never mind the name—admin attys are now arguing the main #research #library of the #legislative branch doesn’t belong to #Congress at all.
A #legal push to claim the Library as executive turf isn’t a one-off. It’s the latest move in a broader effort by Trump…to erase the…lines that separate the branches of govt.
#law
wapo.st/4dQh5Hm

The Washington Post · It’s called the Library of Congress. But Trump claims it’s his.By Meryl Kornfield

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Alle 4566 Plenarprotokolle des Deutschen Bundestages von 1949 bis 2025 (Stichtag: 24. Mai) ab sofort im 'Corpus der Plenarprotokolle des Deutschen Bundestages' (CPP-BT) verfügbar.

Auch Einzelreden mit Name, ID und Fraktion der Redner:in!

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💾 Datensatz - doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4542661

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💻 #RStats Source Code - doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4542665

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@rstats @politicalscience @histodons #OpenAccess #OpenSource #OpenScience #Parliament #Bundestag #Plenarprotokoll #Histodons #HistodonsDE #NLP #Dataviz #Legislative #Debate

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“The charges against me are purely political—they mischaracterize & distort my actions, & are meant to #criminalize & deter #legislative #oversight,” she said.

#AlinaHabba also announced that she had dismissed a misdemeanor charge for trespass against #RasBaraka, the Democratic mayor of #Newark, whose arrest had precipitated the flare-up w/federal agents after he sought to join the lawmakers on their tour of the detention center.

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In both these roles, over the past few years, I've been asked to serve on diverse bodies that offer guidance about how the #Executive & #Legislative branches can be stewards of #knowledge & create structure to enable #discovery, #innovation, & #ingenuity. In the instance of the National #Science Board, this ideal has dissolved so gradually, yet so completely, that I barely noticed its absence until confronted with its hollow simulacrum.

Seit dem ersten Parteien - #Koalitionsvertrag von 1961 werden die Abgeordneten des deutschen Bundestages (MdB) immer weiter unter "Fraktionszwang" gestellt. Der Vertrag damals hatte 9 Seiten, inzwischen sind es 144! Art. 38 GG ist faktisch außer Kraft gesetzt.

gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_

Dabei bin ich klar der Meinung, dass es die Aufgabe des #Bundestag als #Legislative wäre, etwa über die Zukunft der #Rente & #Demografie offen und überparteilich zu debattieren. Was meinst Du?

www.gesetze-im-internet.deArt 38 GG - Einzelnorm
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Fourteen days restraining order. Deputy Assistant Attorney General argues that the emergency is plaintiff's creation, & that the court has no jurisdiction. So we'll soon be able to add this as 3) CA federal judge: "Stop it." & they defy another court.
#SanFrancisco #federal #judge #Susan #Illston "#radically #restructure & #dismantle the #federal #government" #RIF #Notice #reduction in #force #protect the #power of the #legislative #branch #executive #TRO #restraining npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-53937

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She was fired in a two-sentence email from Trent Morse, the deputy director of White House personnel, acc/to a screenshot released by Senator Martin Heinrich of NM, the top #Democrat on the #Appropriations Subcommittee on the #Legislative Branch.

“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as the Librarian of Congress is terminated effective immediately,”the email said, without citing a cause. “Thank you for your service.”

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Alleine auf der Ebene des Koalitionsvertrages zeigt sich in massiver Form punktuelle #Menschenfeindlichkeit denn die Gründe für die multiplen #Krisen & #Krisenverschraenkungen sind struktureller Art und haben mit der #Legislative aus den Jahren 1999 - 2025 zu tun.
Beispiel: Die strukturelle #Wohnungsnot und der #Fachkräftemangel Mit der #Agenda2010 und der Partiellen #Entrechtung von #Menschen in #Langzeiterwerbslosigkeit konnte nicht mehr frei ueber #Bildung entschieden werden = #Willkür

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The #Constitution set up a #SeparationOfPowers among the federal government's #coequal #executive, #legislative & #judicial branches.

Proponents of a *conservative* legal doctrine called the "#UnitaryExecutive" theory that envisions vast executive authority for a president portray Humphrey's as wrongly decided. They argue that #ArticleII gives a president sole authority over the executive branch, including the power to fire heads of #independent agencies despite protections under #law.

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…The fate of the statutory protections in question rests on how #SCOTUS treats Humphrey's Executor & related rulings. In the 1935 ruling, the court upheld for-cause removal protections for FTC members, faulting Roosevelt's firing for policy differences.

In that decision, SCOTUS said restricting a president's removal was lawful because that agency performed tasks more closely resembling #legislative & #judicial functions, rather than those belonging squarely to the #ExecutiveBranch.

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…A longtime force on the #Judiciary Cmte, Mr. #Durbin became its chair in 2021, resisting calls from progressives that he make room for a younger member given his leadership role & other #legislative responsibilities.

He subsequently oversaw the confirmation of 235 federal #judges during the Biden admin—including one #SCOTUS justice—surpassing by one the number of judges confirmed by #Republicans during an aggressive push in #Trump’s first term.

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Several #Texas #Christians & 2 small businesses sued in federal court in Texas in 2020 to challenge the #USPSTF,'s structure. It is the latest in a years-long series of challenges to the 2010 #law, Pres #Obama's signature #legislative achievement, to reach #SCOTUS.

If the justices uphold the lower court's ruling, #health associations said in a filing, life-saving tests & treatments that have been cost-free would become subject to co-pays & deductibles.

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Es wäre ein Fall für die #Legislative, wolltest du sicher sagen. Wie ich ganz oben geschrieben habe, hat der Bundesgerichtshof in Deutschland in einem sehr ähnlichen Fall gegenteilig entschieden und von mir zitierte Juristen begrüßten dieses Urteil, weil sie in der vorangegangenen Mitschuld-Entscheidung tatsächlich die Einführung einer "Helmpflicht durch die Hintertür" sehen.
Das hat nichts mit Trumpismus zu tun, im Gegenteil.