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Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive or... by eadmund on Friday January 31, 2025 @08:40AM (#42887532)
Yes, and then Article I, Section 8 goes on to explain what counts as the ‘common Defence and general Welfare’ when it enumerates the Congress’s powers.

That’s not Sovereign Citizen nonsense — it’s very basic constitutional law. Congress doesn’t have the ability to pass national rent control, for example.

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Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive or... by rbanffy on Friday January 31, 2025 @11:34AM (#42889120)
> Congress doesn’t have the ability to pass national rent control, for example

Rent control should be easy to fit within "general welfare".

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Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive or... by kristjansson on Friday January 31, 2025 @01:45PM (#42890368)
Congress not only _could_ control rents nationally, congress _has_ controlled rents nationally [1] and those controls survived the review of the court.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Price_Control_Act_of...

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Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive or... by yakz on Friday January 31, 2025 @09:18AM (#42887921)
The Supreme Court has decided what ‘the general welfare’ means, and it is not limited to the listed powers. This information is not difficult to find, as would be expected given the last 90ish years of spending that is obviously not limited to the list of powers.
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