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Analysis: If courts follow Constitution, Biden’s $1.7 trillion spending plan is dead

An analysis of a new lawsuit by the Texas attorney general over Joe Biden’s massive $1.7 trillion spending spree, “adopted” by Congress just months ago, shows that if America’s federal judiciary does its “constitutional duty,” the bill is dead.

The Daily Caller News Foundation earlier reported on the lawsuit by Ken Paxton against Biden for putting his signature on the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 bill.

It’s because the bill was signed after being adopted in a vote in the House which didn’t even have a majority of the members present.

The Constitution’s only options for the House when there is no majority would be to “adjourn from day to day” or “compel the attendance of absent members.”

It charges the Biden signature “was nullity” because the spending spree never actually was adopted by the House.

Now an analysis by Margot Cleveland, the senior legal correspondent at the Federalist, points out that the law is clear, the evidence is there, the circumstances are uncontested, and if the judiciary does its “constitutional duty,” the law will be ruled void.

Cleveland also is a contributor to National Review Online, the Washington Examiner, Aleteia, and Townhall.com, and has been published in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. She’s a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School, where she earned the Hoynes Prize – the law school’s highest honor. She spent years as a law clerk for a federal appellate judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

She noted if the courts agree with the complaint, Biden’s “spending spree” is dead.

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