You better believe that Joe Biden and his team knew that already, too. He managed to buy midterm votes without spending a dollar, and now he can play the victim for another couple of years to hang on.
You better believe that Joe Biden and his team knew that already, too. He managed to buy midterm votes without spending a dollar, and now he can play the victim for another couple of years to hang onto those voters, who will end up with nothing at all.
At least one judge decided that the Constitution might be a little more important than “standing” when it comes to Biden’s unilateral appropriation of several hundred billion dollars. In fact, the insult to the separation of powers and Congress’ exclusive power of the purse is grave enough that Judge Mark Pittman decided to dispense with the plaintiff’s request for an injunction and proceeded to decide the case immediately, vacating Biden’s executive order:
We’ll get to the appeal issue in a moment. First, let’s take a look at Judge Pittman’s reasoning at going directly to the merits. Federal judges have authority to consolidate phases of the process where judges see a need to proceed directly to the merits. And, Pittman writes in his judgment, this is definitely one of those cases for which this authority exists, especially in regard to violations of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) alleged by plaintiffs:
As for standing, Pittman sees through the Biden administration’s arguments that no private plaintiffs could possibly establish standing, disagreeing strenuously to that claim:
In making this argument, Pittman no doubt had his eye on the Biden administration’s attempts to change the parameters of the loan-forgiveness program to undermine standing in other lawsuits.
