ORADOR LOBBY: A palpably unfair act

Referee Shawn Hochuli educated football fans in Rule 12, Section 3, Article 4 of the NFL Rules Book.

Hochuli threatened to give the Philadelphia Eagles An automatic touchdown after Washington commanders committed three consecutive penalties on the goal line during the NFC championship game.

Washington Linebacker Frankie Luvu threw himself twice, imitating a half -flight superman, passing over the scrimmage line before the Eagles made the ball on the garden line. Luvu was trying to prevent the Eagles quarterback, Jalen Hurts, to sink in the final area behind his massive lintels.

Hochuli brought the ball closer to the goal line after each offense. “Half the distance to the goal line” is the sanction, that is, the ball advanced a few inches each time and Philadelphia won a new set of casualties. But after the second offense, Hochuli announced that he would evaluate Luvu an insportary penalty if he did it again.

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Luvu did not.

But in the third play, Jonathan Allen was briefly out of Washington, Jonathan Allen, jumped briefly before the snapshot.

Hochuli exploded the whistle, evaluated a penalty to route, and advanced the ball until his nose kissed the goal line.

The referee tutored the nation in one of the darkest rules of any athletic rule book.

“In Washington he has been warned that the referees can give a score if this kind of behavior occurs again,” Hochuli said, a lot for the delight of the partisan crowd who put himself in the financial field of Lincoln in South Philly .

The rule declares the following:

“A player or substitute will not interfere in the game by any act that is palpably unfair. Criminal: for a palpably unfair act: the offender can be disqualified. The referee, after consulting the official crew, enters any penalty of distance It considers equitable and independent of any other penalty of the specified code.

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In short, if Washington had committed another penalty, Hochuli could have left the ball to the goal line. He would just give the Eagles six points on the scoreboard.

Rule 12, Section 3, Article 4 does not exist in governance or politics. Except for voters, there is no referee like Shawn Hochuli to evaluate penalties, discipline in discipline and dock in a team garden.

And this is what Democrats – and some Republicans – Trump administration He moves to freeze the money appropriate by Congress through the table.

Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution is clear which government branch controls the portfolio chains:

“No money is to be taken from the treasury, but as a result of the appropriations made by law.”

That is, Congress is responsible for spending money. The executive branch cannot unilaterally frustrate what the Congress spends. President Richard Nixon tried it in the mid -1970’s with “impediment”. The Nixon administration blocked the money expenditure that Congress allocated.

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Thereby Elon Musk’s The “Government efficiency department” or “doge” is so controversial. First, it is not a “department” as the State Department or the Department of Energy. It is really the “US DOGE service”, located under the umbrella of a small agency within the executive branch: the United States Digital Service.

But President Trump has granted Elon Musk and his team accessing ways to reduce spending. The DOGE service cannot reduce its spending on its own. At least not constitutionally. And it certainly cannot eliminate another agency, such as the North -American Agency for International Development, USAID.

Unless Congress says.

That is why last week’s drama on an automatic freezing of subsidies and federal loans stepped on the legislators on both sides Hill Capitol. Of course, the administration called for a “temporary” pause. And even some powerful Republicans were fine with that.

“I think this is a normal practice at the beginning of the administration until we have the opportunity to know how the money is spent,” said the leader of most Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., on the arrest . “I think it’s just a preliminary type of step that I think most administrations do.”

But the congress generally safeguards its prerogatives to spend very closely. It would be noteworthy that the legislators would contact the tax responsibilities in the executive branch without struggle.

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That is why when he granted a containment order to override the administration’s movements at the URP Expenditure Congress, Judge in the North -American District Loren Alikhan stated that there was “irreparable damage”. to the federal agencies and that the actions of the administration could be “catastrophic”.

Republicans raised few pirates on the decisions of the administration. But the Democrats and their allies wrote the gravity of the circumstances.

“This is a deep constitutional theme,” said Senator Angus King, I-Maine. “What happened last night is the most direct assault on the Congressional Authority, I believe in the history of the United States. It is blatantly unconstitutional. Article two does not give the executive the power to determine budgets or Congress three expenses. “

Usaid closed Monday and employees were blocked from the computer system. Musk said the agency should be closed.

The Democrats of the House and the Senate marched on the USAID headquarters in Washington on Monday to protest the move of Doo and Musk.

“If you want to change an agency, enter a bill and pass a law. You cannot divert an agency you don’t like,” said Senator Brian Sccatz, D-Hawaii.

“Like Elon Musk did not create USAID, he does not have the power to destroy him,” said representative Jamie Raskin, D-MD. “We do not have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk.”

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The movements of the administration last week and over the weekend to step on the Congressional spending powers were so restless that Democrats could have hoped that the referee Shawn Hochuli would be around to grant them a score. Democrats said that the move was far beyond the pale that can be described as a “palpably unfair act”. They could say that the maneuvers were so constitutionally abominant that they should grant Democrats a “score”.

Secretary Marco Rubio The new USAID chief was declared.

“They are supposed to take the management of the policy of the State Department and no. Their attitude is that they do not have to answer us. This is not true and this will not be the case anymore,” said Rubio.

During an appearance on the fox, Mike Johnson House SpeakerR-la., He said it was important to find savings to pay the renewal of Trump’s tax cuts.

“We have to find these savings,” Johnson said. “We will have mass savings making the Government more efficient and efficient.”

The chairman of the House Transport Committee, Sam Graves, R-MO.

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“A lot of money has frozen,” said Graves. “There are some programs that the President and Congress do not want to move forward and we have to readjust many of these programs.”

A deadline for financing the Government in about five weeks. With its narrow majority, it is generally believed that Republicans may need Democrats’ help to keep the government open. But the Democrats can now revolt as they believe that GOP members may be ready to give up spending authority to the executive branch.

Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., Is the highest Democrat of the Appropriation Committee. She wonders what if the sides come to an agreement “and this administration says it is a bandage. We don’t have to go through it.”

Murray added that “the confidence level is the lowest I’ve seen here in Congress.”

In politics, there is no referee. There will be demands. Judicial challenges. Battles that will make anger for years.

But it is up to the voters to determine if what the Trump administration now does is a “palpably unfair act”.

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And voters will not have the opportunity to award a score until November next year.