buddha

congress cedes power within the laws that it writes creating and funding those agencies. and then it procedes to cede more power when it does nothing when the executive overreaches that power. the democrats do nothing when biden tried to do it, and the republicans certainly do nothing when trump does. and its nice to see you and justice gorsuch on the same page, even though you'll be oblivious that youre reading from the same book.

the executive branch via the administrative state has had power ceded to it by congress for decades. part of that is via necessity as government has grown so much larger and entered every corner of american life (the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy), and part of it is from political necessity as members of congress figure it is much easier to let the executive take the blame for anything that goes wrong, and they can glom on to anything that goes right.

"insulated from executive branch politics". when has that ever been the case? the administrative agencies are a part of the executive branch and have been beholden to that branch since time immemorial. again, the difference is now you have an extremely bad actor as the executive for the first time since nixon. since congress has ceded its power to the executive, it takes one bad actor to bring down the house of cards.

go america. no O-ffense to my canadian brothers and sisters. i actually have a canadian who works for me now and she is - predictably - the sweetest, most polite person. that being said, i have yet to see her after a couple of labatts at the curling rink.

They might.

so he paid for that case but not this one? i know trump is dumb with money, but it seems like a poor and limited investment. maybe roberts wanted to shake him down for more payments? like its an NIL thing? more cash or i'm transferring to the second district appellate court.

in citizens united the court built on a previous ruling that money = speech in the context of political contributions, so congress (or the states) couldnt regulate citizens' political speech by telling them what amounts they could contribute to their favored political candidate. in the same way that congress cant pass a law that says G2 cant stand outside and tell everyone how much he loves president trump. not that it would ever need to pass such a law. i dislike citizens united very much, but i dont think this ruling has anything to do with it. but as usual, i could be wrong. this is a major questions doctrine/ieepa/taxing power/statutory interpretation question. the early commentary is interesting in that it talks about the roberts court's take on restricting congress' ability to delegate its powers to the executive, which would be a wonderful thing if congress would actually go back to doing its job. sarah isgur has a comment on it in the times from back in december that people are pointing to as prescient, if youre interested.

I guess we'll have to switch the narrative on the whole "supreme court is in the bag for trump" thing now...

its good that you love jesus because its going to take a miracle for him to get a good contract next year.

Cole Anthony needs to be punished for ruining jaden ivey's life.

he deserves it.

total trap game. but the bulls are total crap so the pistons should be ok. they played zero defense before the trade deadline and got even worse afterwards. who plays less in this game: heurter or ivey?

beating an New York team always gives someone a lot of hype. its funny, if he put 50 up on the thunder or spurs it would be on page 5, but beat THE KNICKS IN THE GARDEN and now he's an mvp candidate. he's been an mvp candidate all year, its about time the east coast recognized it.

michigan getting a little ahead of themselves with duke and illinois still on the schedule.

patrick williams might be the worst player in the league. that's impressive for the former #4 pick in the draft.

Is kevin heuter alive?

cade and brunson off the floor and the pistons increase their lead because paul reed > the $50 million stay puff marshmallow man.

i bet it tasted like a soft, gooey marshmallow.

caris lavert taking the ball to the basket against kat: the resistable force versus the moveable object.

Kat cringing and moving out of the way while cade dunks is the ultimate kat play. pussy.

the pistons are just better than the knicks now. cade is better than brunson. ausar has gotten better on defense and can shadow brunson everywhere. kat is still invisible.

whenever i read "i trust trajan", i'm going to say two words: caris lavert. what a terrible acquisition.

jose alvardo would have been a nice pick up.

as long as there is a draft, there will be tanking. you could penalize teams by "adding wins" to their record if they win less than a specified number of games. all these ideas MIGHT affect the margins, but will not stop the problem.

boozer isnt a mercenary? how much do you think duke is paying him? more than they paid zion under the table?