Re:Why can't stinking rich Ivies cope with losing a few hund...
by otterley on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @04:38PM
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We’re in agreement here. That’s why I mentioned in the first sentence that Congress can delegate certain spending decisions. But it’s not the default behavior as the Constitution defaults to Congress having sole plenary authority.
Re:Why can't stinking rich Ivies cope with losing a few hund...
by gamblor956 on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @10:09PM
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Right, under Title VI.
Trump is not using Title VI to justify withholding federal funding. He's just withholding federal funding and his minions are coming up with the justification after the fact. And even then, it's insufficient, because Title VI requires an investigation and a fair amount of procedure.
Re:Why can't stinking rich Ivies cope with losing a few hund...
by SR2Z on Thursday May 01, 2025 @01:14PM
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This is one of the stupider things this administration does. They have the legal power to do lots of the things they're doing, but they are too incompetent to dot their is and cross their ts.
Who knew that driving off everyone who was good at their job would make the administration less competent?
But the Congress never did that. You won't find an appropriations bill where Congress allocated $X to Harvard and $Y to Princeton, etc. In fact, it did the opposite. Under Title VI, it empowered the executive branch to withhold money based on civil rights violations. And regardless of your view on Presidential power vis-a-vis executive branch agencies, 42 USC 2000d-1 specifically subordinates federal agencies' rules, regulations, and orders pursuant to Title VI to the authority of the "President."