We are seeing courts that are way out of their jurisdiction. Courts are to mitigate disputes and enforce laws, however courts are taking upon themselves to try to run the government. We saw it before\u00a0 when a district court claimed it had jurisdiction to\u00a0 halt acts of the President. The Constitution only authorizes one court to have jurisdiction over the President and that is the Supreme Court. District courts are restricted to their district and cannot make rulings that apply nationwide. Other district courts may cite their rulings in cases applying to their district but are not compelled to. The Supreme Court reprimanded the district courts for exceeding their authority but it has not stopped them from trying. Now a district court has ordered the President to pay SNAP benefits during the government shutdown. First of all, the President is a higher authority then the\u00a0 District court and doesn\u2019t have to take orders from District courts and second, the courts can\u2019t just tell him to pay the benefits without legislative approval. The courts cannot authorize government expenditures. That is reserved for Congress.\u00a0 President Trump worked out with the Dept of Agriculture to pay the October benefits from their emergency fund and secured private donations to pay partial benefits during November in the hope that the Democrats will end their childish refusal to approve the budget until they get the added funds they want. The President can\u2019t just authorize expenditures without Congressional authorization though President Biden did it openly in clear violation of the Constitution which is why we are in the financial mess we are in. The courts have no authority to force the President to solicit private funds to pay the governments bills until the Democrats give in. The\u00a0 benefits have to be authorized by Congress and there is no authorization until Congress approves the budget or an emergency authorization. Republicans have\u00a0 floated bills to pay the armed services, the federal employees, the air traffic controllers, SNAP recipients and others until they can get the budget passed but Democrats have refused\u00a0 to approve them because it would weaken the leverage they have to blackmail the Republicans into approving\u00a0 vast new expenditures.<\/p>\n
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