Letter: Buckle up

Published 12:00 am Sunday, March 2, 2025

OK, let me see if I understand this: the Constitution declares that Congress, specifically the House of Reps, has “the power of the purse.” Two weeks ago, a district judge rules that the Trump Administration cannot deny the release of funds for foreign contracts. On Wednesday, the same judge reaffirms his decision because Trump, et al. has refused to comply with the court’s decision.

Trump et al. immediately appeals to a higher court (Court of Appeals) on the same Wednesday and that appeals court immediately agrees with the lower court’s decision, so, same day Trump appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court who immediately issues a stay until Friday, Feb. 28, at noon. These are the Supremes that ignored prior precedent and over ruled Roe, with lightning speed, issued their new interpretation of presidential immunity, waiting until July 1, 2024, to essentially issue the president existential power over all official acts, and now acting with great speed about Trump’s power, because Trump’s attitude is “go ahead and make me.”

It takes a convict to pardon his fellow felons from Jan. 6. This is, beyond any doubt, the most lawless president in U.S. history. So will SCOTUS agree with the easy Constitutional basis that the lower courts obviously identified with whose power to award or deny funds is left to? Or will the piece of junk Republican Supreme Musketeers, ignore the “checks and balances” system imagined by our forefathers and their three separate entities and instead of protecting Democracy, give in to the service of the king and his jester. So America, it’s either going to be “green grass and high tides” forever, or we will be singing, hang on “help is on it’s Way.” Either way, as former RNC Chair Michael Steele says, “buckle up!”

— Harold E. Stover Jr.
Salisbury