Usurpations of the Separation of Powers
PART II: Six indictments and The Path to American Restoration
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands … may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
— James Madison, Federalist No. 471
The first indictment exposed five mortal wounds inflicted upon the Bill of Rights by Oath-Breakers.
This second indictment lays bare the deliberate destruction of the separation of powers itself. Every elected official, every appointed judge, every bureaucrat who has participated in eroding the balance of powers is not abiding by their oath to protect and defend the Constitution, and instead, stands as a betrayer of that sacred oath.
Congressional members broke their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution when they surrendered exclusive war and purse powers.
Executives broke their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution when they seized authorities the Constitution never granted.
Judges broke their oaths when they remained silent in the face of clear violations or actively shielded the violators with invented doctrines.
The result is a new, unholy consolidation of power that no longer answers to the people. It answers to a modern aristocracy of bankers, war profiteers, and corporate enterprises such as pharmaceutical giants who’ve become pestilence merchants, wielding wealth and prestige as weapons against American citizens. These domestic enemies have captured the levers of government and turned the constitutional republic into an engine of private gain at public expense.
The Founders did not fight a revolution to replace one aristocracy with another. They fought to end the age of privilege and begin an era in which justice, not birth or fortune, would reign. They crafted a Constitution to secure a golden age of justice in which no man, no faction, and no interest stands above the law.
We’ve heard the talk of America moving into a “Golden Age”. That age has not yet arrived. It will arrive only when the Constitution is restored, the corporate liability shields are rendered illegitimate, and every wrongdoer who has forsaken their oath engaged in coercion, force, or fraud, or violating civil rights, and so on, is held to account.
Part II is an indictment of the new body politic that dishonored the sacred intent of our forebears, eroded the framework of separated powers, and enabled a perversion of justice in service to a neo-aristocratic parasitical class that seeks to further erode the Constitution, rather than build upon it in the same spirit that was enacted almost 250 years ago.
The chain of betrayals grows longer, and the summons to restore the republic grows louder.
I. The Executive Exercises Legislative Power
Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution is only fifteen words long:
“All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States”
Those fifteen words have been effectively repealed, not by amendment, but by usurpation.
The President was once understood to possess only the power to faithfully execute laws passed by Congress.
In 1952, Justice Jackson laid out the three categories of presidential action in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer.2
“When the President acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress, his authority is at its maximum … When the President acts in absence of either a congressional grant or denial of authority, he can only rely upon his own independent powers … When the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.”
This framework, born from the Supreme Court’s rejection of President Truman’s seizure of steel mills during the Korean War (a classic case of executive overreach), remains the lodestar for evaluating claims of presidential authority today. The Court ruled that Truman’s action, though motivated by national security, violated the separation of powers because neither Congress nor the Constitution authorized it.
The Court emphasized that the President’s role is to execute laws, not make them.
Yet since the New Deal era, and with accelerating speed since 9/11, the Executive has moved almost entirely into the third, forbidden zone through an ever-increasing volume of executive orders that subvert the constitutional framework.
Congress has enacted more than 130 permanent or semi-permanent emergency statutes that allow the President to legislate by proclamation.3 Under the National Emergencies Act of 1976, the President can declare an emergency with almost no oversight and unlock extraordinary powers: freezing assets, regulating communications, requisitioning property, all without genuine congressional approval and violating many constitutional protections the Constitution never authorized the Executive to suspend.4
Presidents now create binding law on immigration (DACA, MPP, Title 42), medical mandates (OSHA vaccine rule), and climate policy (Clean Power Plan 2.0) without a single vote in Congress.5
Agencies under the President’s control issue thousands of rules each year that carry criminal penalties Congress never enacted.6 These “enforcement decisions” are new laws written, adjudicated, and enforced by the same branch.
The Constitution never granted the President, nor any agency beneath him, the power to make law. The Executive has seized it anyway, and Congress has acquiesced.
This is the direct, ongoing usurpation of Article I, Section 1.
This is the very definition of executive legislation, and it is forbidden by the Constitution.
The worst examples span administrations, proving this is a bipartisan pattern of consolidation:
George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13233, effectively nullifying the Presidential Records Act of 1978 by giving sitting and former presidents indefinite veto power over the release of records. A federal court struck it down in 2007 as unlawful.7
Bush also authorized warrantless NSA wiretapping in direct defiance of FISA, violating the Fourth Amendment, a pure “lowest ebb” action under Youngstown.8Barack Obama dramatically expanded Executive Order 12333 to allow the NSA to share raw signals intelligence on Americans with domestic law-enforcement agencies without warrants, institutionalizing unconstitutional “back-door searches” of U.S. persons’ communications.9
Furthermore, Obama’s DACA program turned prosecutorial discretion into de facto legislation, rewriting immigration law without Congress.10Joe Biden’s OSHA vaccine-or-test mandate for 84 million private-sector workers was invalidated in NFIB v. OSHA (2022). More fundamentally, it was a direct assault on bodily sovereignty, an explicit violation of the long-recognized Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to bodily integrity and medical self-determination affirmed in Cruzan (1990).11 No peacetime federal action in American history had ever attempted to force medical procedures on citizens under threat of losing their livelihoods.
Biden attempted a unilateral cancellation of more than $400 billion in student loans. The Supreme Court struck it down in Biden v. Nebraska (2023) as a blatant violation of the major-questions doctrine and the Appropriations Clause.12
Executive Order 14019 turned every federal agency into an arm of partisan voter mobilization, using taxpayer funds in ways that violate the Hatch Act and Article I, Section 4’s assignment of election regulation to the states.13
No oath to support and defend the Constitution can coexist with participation in, or obedience to, these forms of usurpation.
Oath-Keepers are duty-bound to resist and annul every unconstitutional order, no matter how long a chain of precedent has tolerated it.
Otherwise, we no longer live in a constitutional republic, but under an elected “Legislator-in-Chief” that can rewrite the law by decree.
Illegal orders are not owed obedience.
Only lawful ones are.
II. Congress Surrenders the Power of the Purse and the Coin
Article I, Section 8 grants Congress alone the power “To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof” and “To borrow Money on the credit of the United States.”
Article I, Section 9 declares that “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
These clauses together form the beating heart of a constitutional republic government: the people’s representatives, and only the people’s representatives, control the purse.
Congress has betrayed that trust twice over.
In 1913, Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act, delegating substantial control over the nation’s money supply and credit to the newly created Federal Reserve System. While Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution grants Congress the exclusive power “To coin Money” and “regulate the Value thereof,” the Act established a hybrid public-private institution: the Board of Governors is a federal agency with members appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, while the twelve regional Reserve Banks are owned by member commercial banks. Critics, including many constitutional originalists, argue that this delegation exceeds Congress’s enumerated powers, effectively outsourcing monetary authority to a quasi-independent entity insulated from direct democratic accountability. Supporters counter that the Fed operates under congressional oversight, returns most profits to the Treasury, and is constitutional under the Necessary and Proper Clause. Regardless of perspective, the creation of the Federal Reserve marked a profound shift from the Constitution’s original framework of hard-money coinage toward a centralized, elastic fiat currency system.14
Learn more about what the Federal Reserve is and does in this video…
Second, it has funded the government for decades through continuing resolutions, omnibus abominations, and endless debt-ceiling suspensions instead of passing regular appropriations bills as the Constitution demands.
The national debt now exceeds $36.2 trillion and rising, a sum no generation can ever repay, financed through borrowing and taxation in ways that bypass the original constitutional restraints on direct taxation.15
Congress has turned the power of the purse into a rubber stamp for executive and corporate spending.
It has transformed the United States Treasury into a perpetual ATM for bankers, war profiteers, globalist enterprises, and non-governmental organizations that function as illegal political-funding laundering machines and embezzlement operations.
These entities bankroll the suppression of free speech, the invasion of privacy, forever wars, and the deliberate impoverishment of the working class.
Every Member who votes for another continuing resolution, every Member who raises the debt ceiling without the original constitutional restraints, and every Member who refuses to end the Federal Reserve’s century-long usurpation participates in the ongoing destruction of Article I, Sections 8 and 9.
The power of the purse was given to Congress so that the people, through their representatives, could starve tyranny of funds.
Instead, Congress has chosen to feed it.
No amendment to the Constitution has ever changed the coinage clause or the appropriation clause.
Every dollar printed by a private cartel and every dollar borrowed without apportionment is therefore fraudulent, an abuse of the Treasury that belongs to the citizens of this republic. Some will claim the Federal Reserve System has been “accepted” for over a century and is therefore lawful by custom.
Custom cannot amend the Constitution.
A hundred years of usurpation is still usurpation, and a century of theft is still theft.
The result is skyrocketing cost of living, stagnant wages, exploding homelessness, and a sick, indebted populace, all born from this surrender of the people’s money power to private interests.
The purse has been stolen, the republic has been sold, and the thieves still wear the cloak of “representative”. A previous representative, Ron Paul, has been vocal about this for quite some time. The only current representative who has been publicly vocal enough about this problem now is Rep. Thomas Massie.
See Massie's Debt Counter | Massie calls out the U.S. Dept of the Treasury
Yet the Trump administration has criticized Massie sharply for his fiscal hawk stance. We need more like Massie, who challenges the ever-increasing debt spending. Far more. And certainly not less.
III. Congress Surrenders the Exclusive Power to Declare War
“No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” — James Madison, Political Observations, 179516
Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 reserves to Congress alone the power “To declare War.”
Since 1942 however, the United States has waged major armed conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, the Persian Gulf (twice), Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Niger, and elsewhere without a single formal declaration of war.17
Every such war is a direct violation of Article I, Section 8, Clause 11. Every president who ordered troops into combat without that declaration, every Member of Congress who funded it, and every service member who obeyed such orders acted under illegal authority.
The oath is to the Constitution, not to any man, any administration, or any “authorization.”
An order to engage in war without a congressional declaration is an illegal order.
Most service men and women are trained to know that to obey an illegal order is to violate the oath and to sin against both the laws of God and the laws of man. Yet, service members who recognize these conflicts lack a formal declaration face a profound moral dilemma under their oath, as the legality is in a grey area.
In 1973 Congress passed the War Powers Resolution, claiming to “limit” presidential war-making.
In truth it did the opposite: it granted the President ninety days of unilateral war power without a declaration or vote.
That statute itself is unconstitutional — an attempt to delegate the exclusive war-declaring authority of Congress and an unconstitutional legislative veto.
Every president since has treated it as such.
The Resolution is not a restraint.
It is a surrender of the power to declare war through unconstitutional delegation. Congress cannot transfer its war-declaring power to the President by statute any more than it can transfer its taxing power.
The War Powers Resolution is itself a Category 3 violation: a legislative veto struck down by Chadha (1983) and a delegation of the undelegable power to declare war.18
Yet, congress went at it again. The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) has been twisted into a permanent war license for seven administrations and military operations in at least nineteen countries.19
Prior to the passage of AUMF, Representative Barbara Lee stood alone on September 14, 2001, and warned:
“Some of us must urge the use of restraint … lest we become the evil we deplore.”20
Every other Member who voted yes surrendered the most solemn power the Constitution entrusts to Congress. They abdicated it, but no article in the Constitution says that Congress can abdicate it.
They turned the United States into a perpetual war machine whose primary beneficiaries are the military-industrial complex and its shareholders. And the new aristocracy that benefits from using the MIC to exploit earth’s resources that belong to other nation-states has abused United States war powers to violate sovereign territories in covert and overt wars for the past eight decades. Almost a century of war profiteering has both impoverished and endangered our nation.
Congress has refused to impose an excess-profits tax as it did in World Wars I and II, allowing war profiteers to amass obscene fortunes while the national debt explodes and new foreign enemies multiply.
The National Guard, raised under Article I, Section 8 to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, has instead been deployed as an imperial expeditionary force in undeclared wars of choice. Leaving states less prepared for domestic threats, including the heightened risk of terrorist infiltration amid record border crossings, where millions entered without adequate screening or vetting. This is not serving the common defense; it is aggression for corporate enterprise, and one that has compromised our own people and threatens our way of life in America.
Sedition is not the citizen’s refusal to obey illegal orders.
Sedition is the act of officials who rebel against the Supreme Law of the land. If our National Guard are to protect us here at home, they must remain here at home. And they must protect and defend us from domestic enemies here at home as well.
All of these illegal and unconstitutional acts and authorizations come with a price. Every legislator who votes to fund these wars, every president who orders them, and every officer who executes them without a formal declaration of war is engaged in the ongoing usurpation of Article I, Section 8.
Engaging in illegal orders under the usurpation of the Supreme law is an un-American activity if those who’ve sworn an oath to Protect and Defend the Constitution aren’t perjuring themselves.
IV. The Writ of Habeas Corpus Is Effectively Suspended
Article I, Section 9 declares:
“The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”
This is the only individual right the Constitution expressly protects from suspension in peacetime.
The Great Writ is the citizen’s final shield: the right to be brought before a judge and told why they are being held.
When the government can gather evidence in secret, seize a citizen, and hold them forever without ever bringing them before a judge, the writ has been effectively suspended.
The Founders called habeas corpus the “bulwark of liberty” and the one right that must never fall except in the direst emergency.
Yet the Patriot Act (2001) authorizes secret “sneak-and-peek” searches, national-security letters that gag citizens indefinitely, and the collection of private records without a judicial warrant. All tools that can be (and have been) used to build a secret case against a citizen who is then disappeared into military detention.21
Yet the National Defense Authorization Act, §§ 1021–1022, signed by President Obama in 2011 and renewed by every Congress and every President since. While the government claims it does not apply to U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, the language is broad enough to invite abuse, and renewal signals acceptance of indefinite detention authority to seize and detain American citizens indefinitely, without charge, without trial, on American soil.2223
Lincoln suspended it during actual rebellion and was immediately rebuked by Chief Justice Taney in Ex Parte Merryman.
Today, there is no rebellion, no invasion, and no rebuke, only silence, renewal, and complicity.
Every president who signs these provisions, every Member of Congress who votes to renew them, and every judge who refuses to strike them down is participating in the effective suspension of the Great Writ.
The government now claims the power to disappear its own citizens.
That power, once taken, is never voluntarily returned.
When the day comes that a president uses this authority against political enemies, the republic will already be dead.
Only the immediate, uncompromised restoration of the universal Great Writ can prove it still lives.
Congress can end this usurpation tomorrow with two simple statutes:
A law declaring that no U.S. citizen shall ever be subjected to indefinite military detention without trial unless Congress has formally declared war or expressly suspended habeas corpus under Article I, Section 9.
A law restoring the non-delegation doctrine so Congress can never again hand the President a blank check for domestic military action against law-abiding citizens solely on political, philosophical, or religious grounds.
Until those laws are passed, the sword hangs over every American head.
This is the most dangerous usurpation of all.
V. The Judiciary Abdicates Its Duty to Police the Boundaries
Article III, Section 1, vests the judicial power of the United States in one Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as Congress may establish.
The judiciary was created for one purpose: to serve as the final guardian of the Constitution’s boundaries.
Instead, it has become the chief enabler of the Constitution’s destruction.
Federal courts dismiss war-powers lawsuits as “political questions.”
They dismiss surveillance-state challenges for “lack of standing.”
They invent doctrines of deference that prevent any case from ever reaching the merits.24
They uphold indefinite military detention of American citizens and agency-made criminal laws without ever asking whether Congress actually passed them.25
They treat Marbury v. Madison as a historical curiosity rather than a living command:
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.”
When the Supreme Court refuses to say what the law is, it ceases to be a court.
It becomes an accomplice. It is no longer a third branch of power balancing against the other two branches; it is abrogating its jurisprudence to the usurpations and overreach executed in bad faith against the US Constitutional protections of the people by the legislative and executive bodies.
Just as in Judaism some rabbinic traditions have been accused of elevating Talmudic commentaries over the Torah’s plain commandments, in Christianity Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for making “the word of God of no effect” through their traditions (Mark 7:13), and in Islam debates persist over taqlid (blind adherence to scholarly opinions) that overshadow direct engagement with the Quran and authentic Sunnah. Many modern justices similarly place their precedents, doctrines, and convenience above the plain text of the Constitution. That is where interpretation of the law has turned into a perversion of the law. That is the Supreme Law subordinated to the whims of black-robed bureaucrats rather than honorable justices who adjudicate in alignment with the spirit of the Law.
Every justice who hides behind “standing,” “political question,” “deference,” or “state secrets” while the other two branches devour the Constitution has forsaken their oath.
They do not deserve the title “Honorable.”
They do not deserve the robe.
They deserve to be sent back to Constitutional Law 101 until they can read fifteen simple words without inventing a thousand ways to ignore them.
This is the abdication and active assistance of the judicial duty to defend the separation of powers. Justices that fail to adjudicate in favor of the Supreme Law of the Land violate their sacred oath to protect and defend it. They are instead engaged in un-American activity.
VI. The Corporate Capture of All Three Branches
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” — Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 181626
The Constitution created three branches to check concentrated power, not to shield concentrated wealth.
Congress grants liability immunity to favored industries so they can poison the air, land, water, and food, injure children, and silence citizens without ever facing a jury.
The Executive issues regulations that profit connected corporations while burying every small competitor under mountains of compliance paperwork; no startup can survive.
The Judiciary upholds those immunities with doctrines of “deference,” “qualified immunity,” and “state secrets,” refusing to ask whether Congress ever actually authorized the original harm.
The result is a government that no longer serves the people.
It serves Pfizer, BlackRock, Raytheon, Palantir, and the handful of cartels that write the laws, fund the campaigns, and own the courthouses.
The Founders called this evil by its proper name: faction and corruption.
Madison warned that factions would sacrifice the public good to private gain.
Washington condemned “combinations and associations” that substitute the interest of a few for the welfare of the whole.
They knew that when the government becomes the bodyguard of wealth instead of the guardian of justice, the republic is finished.
No amendment ever authorized corporate sovereignty.
No clause ever placed profit above persons.
Yet today, a corporation can maim, defraud, censor, or bankrupt with impunity because every branch has been bought or bullied into protecting it.
This is the final, fatal usurpation of the constitutional republic form of government guaranteed by Article IV, Section 4.
The Constitution was written to secure a golden age of justice in which no interest stands above the law.
We live instead under a corporate age of impunity in which no interest stands under it.
The chains are no longer iron.
They are balance sheets.
And the jailers wear three-piece suits while the people pay the bail.
This is an un-American activity and must be fervently challenged by the New Guard. This must no longer stand. Not on our watch.
The Path to American Restoration
The American republic was founded to create a golden age of justice in which no man, no corporation, and no office stands above the law. That age has not yet arrived. Instead, we're living in an age of lawlessness, of betrayers of the oath, of usurpers, of profiteers, and propagandists.
The truly golden age will arrive only when constitutional authority is restored, corporate shields are shattered, and every lawless person faces accountability.
The tools for restoration are already in our hands:
State War Powers Restoration Acts (“Defend the Guard”) — passed one or both chambers in over 30 states, active bills in twenty-two more.27
State Habeas Corpus Protections: Laws interposing against federal indefinite detention by requiring state non-cooperation and enforcing the writ of habeas corpus, as modeled by the Tenth Amendment Center’s Liberty Preservation Act (enacted in Virginia, California, and others pre-2025; proposed in Montana and Idaho 2025 sessions). These affirm state sovereignty to protect residents from unconstitutional suspensions.28
Appropriations Defunding Riders: Use limitation amendments in the House Rules Committee to zero-fund unconstitutional federal programs (e.g., those exceeding enumerated powers) during consideration of the next omnibus or continuing resolution spending bill. Renewed under the 119th Congress rules, these riders enable targeted cuts without full bill rewrites, reclaiming Congress’s purse power to enforce constitutional limits.29
State Nullification of Federal Fiscal Overreach: Symbolic resolutions invoking the Tenth Amendment to declare unconstitutional federal actions, including debt-enabling policies like bailouts and central banking, as null and void within state borders. These protests reject complicity in fiscal expansions beyond Congress’s enumerated powers, paving the way for future accountability on unsustainable debt. Key examples include:
Oklahoma’s Tenth Amendment Sovereignty Resolution (HCR 1028, 2009): Passed overwhelmingly (House 83–3, Senate 37–6), this resolution claims state sovereignty over powers not delegated to the federal government and demands it “cease and desist” unconstitutional intrusions—such as coercive mandates and fiscal policies that burden states with invalid debt and overreach beyond enumerated powers.30
Gold and Silver Legal Tender Acts: Now enacted in five states — most notably Utah (HB 317, 2011) and Florida (HB 999, 2025) — these laws recognize constitutional specie coins as legal tender for debts and taxes, exempt them from sales and capital-gains taxes, and explicitly exclude central-bank digital currencies (CBDCs) from the definition of “money.” They create a direct, state-backed hedge against inflation, dollar devaluation, and potential digital fiat tyranny. With similar bills introduced in 23 states since 2023, the movement is accelerating.
Federal Level Pressure to Act: The House decisively passed the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act (H.R. 5403, July 17, 2025) to permanently prohibit the Federal Reserve from creating or testing a retail central bank digital currency without explicit congressional consent. Although currently stalled in the Senate, House conservatives can still hold the whip hand: they can attach the exact same language as a rider to the FY2026 Federal Reserve appropriations bill, the next debt-ceiling increase, or any continuing resolution — all must-pass measures that require only a simple majority and give the Senate no realistic veto. By leveraging the power of the purse on the next year’s spending fights, Congress can finish the job and reclaim its exclusive Article I authority over money in a single vote.31
County-Level Restoration Resolutions — sheriffs and commissioners pledging non-cooperation.32
Private Parallel Institutions — mutual credit, community safety, local justice systems that withdraw consent daily.
What You Can Do Today
Contact your state legislators and ask where they stand on Defend the Guard / gold-silver tender / Tenth Amendment resolutions.
Reach out to your county sheriff and commissioners—ask if they’ll pledge non-cooperation with unconstitutional federal acts (link to CSPOA resolution).
Start or join a local mutual aid / parallel economy group in your community.
Share this indictment widely! Every Oath-Keeper needs to read it to be reminded of what is a clear and present danger and what to do about it.
When every lawful remedy has been crushed by the usurpers, the Declaration itself commands the people to alter or abolish the destructive form and institute New Guards for their future security.
We owe no loyalty to usurpers.
We owe no obedience to unlawful edicts.
We owe no deference to pretended authority that shields harm for profit.
Our only allegiance is to the Constitution and to the justice it was written to secure.
That allegiance now demands the full restoration of the American republic.
The republic is not yet lost.
It is waiting to be reclaimed.
Part III will indict the monetary treason that turned free American citizens into debt slaves of a private banking cartel, enslaved generations to unpayable interest, and transformed the United States Treasury into a feeding trough for the same neo-aristocracy that now owns both parties.
Part III will also lay out the final remedies when the corporate state refuses to be cured — and what the Declaration itself requires when every lawful path has been blocked.
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Choose one concrete act of restoration today.
The usurpers are watching. Americans are united to say, “Not on my watch!”
This is for those who bring about the restoration…
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And the custodians, past and present, have betrayed it and their sacred oaths.
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Footnotes
James Madison, Federalist No. 47
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed47.asp
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952)
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/343/579/
Brennan Center for Justice – A Guide to Emergency Powers and Their Use (2025 update)
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/guide-emergency-powers-and-their-use
National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. §§ 1601–1651
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/chapter-34
Costs of War Project – 2001 AUMF Scope Map (Brown University, 2025) https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/sites/default/files/papers/Costs-of-War_2001-AUMF.pdf
Heritage Foundation – Criminal Law and the Administrative State
https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/criminal-law-and-the-administrative-state-the-problem-criminal-regulations
Mercatus Center RegData 2025 – Agency rules with criminal penalties (per State)
https://www.mercatus.org/research/data-visualizations/quantifying-regulation-us-states-state-regdata-20
Executive Order 13233 (November 1, 2001) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2001-11-05/pdf/01-27917.pdf; struck down in American Historical Association v. National Archives, 516 F. Supp. 2d 91 (D.D.C. 2007) https://www.citizen.org/litigation/american-historical-association-aha-v-the-national-archives-and-records-administration-nara/
Warrantless NSA wiretapping program revealed by the New York Times, December 16, 2005; later “legalized” by the FISA Amendments Act of 2008
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/bush-lets-us-spy-on-callers-without-courts.html
Obama dramatically expanded Executive Order 12333 (PPD-28, 2014) and EO 13636 to allow raw signals intelligence sharing with domestic agencies — documented in Snowden leaks and ODNI transparency reports https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/17/presidential-policy-directive-signals-intelligence-activities
DACA program (2012, codified as Final Rule 2022) ruled substantively unlawful (exceeding statutory authority under INA) in Texas v. United States, No. 23-40653 (5th Cir. Jan. 17, 2025) (affirming district court; limited to Texas, with stay for current recipients pending appeal). Full opinion at https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/23/23-40653-CV0.pdf.
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dep’t of Health, 497 U.S. 261 (1990) — Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to bodily integrity and medical self-determination
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/497/261/
Biden v. Nebraska, 600 U.S. ___ (2023) (student-loan forgiveness struck down as violation of major-questions doctrine and Appropriations Clause
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/600/22-506/
Executive Order 14019 (March 7, 2021) — turned federal agencies into voter-mobilization arms in violation of the Hatch Act and Article I, Section 4
Heritage Foundation- Secretary Del Toro’s Hatch Act Violation https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/secretary-del-toros-hatch-act-violation
Federal Reserve Act of 1913, 38 Stat. 251 (December 23, 1913), codified at 12 U.S.C. § 221 et seq. https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fract.htm
U.S. Treasury – Debt to the Penny (live, December 2025) https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
James Madison, Political Observations, April 20, 1795. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-15-02-0423
Congressional Research Service, “Declarations of War and Authorizations for the Use of Military Force: Historical Background and Legal Implications” (updated January 14, 2025), Table 1: Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798–2024 — confirms no formal declaration of war since World War II.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL31133
NS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983) (striking legislative veto).
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/462/919/
Costs of War Project (Brown University), “2001 AUMF Scope Map” (updated October 2025) – documents U.S. military operations under the 2001 AUMF in multiple countries across seven administrations. https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/2001-authorization-use-military-force-comprehensive-look-where-and-how-it-has-been-used
Rep. Barbara Lee – House floor speech opposing the 2001 AUMF, September 14, 2001 https://speakola.com/political/barbara-lee-authorisation-use-military-force-congress-2001
Patriot Act §§ 213 (sneak-and-peek) & 505 (NSLs) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-107publ56/pdf/PLAW-107publ56.pdf
NDAA FY2012 §§ 1021–1022 (renewed annually through FY2026) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-112publ81/pdf/PLAW-112publ81.pdf
Hedges v. Obama, 724 F.3d 170 (2d Cir. 2013) (NDAA §1021 upheld).
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/12-3176/12-3176-2013-07-17.html
Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, 568 U.S. 398 (2013) (FISA §702 — no standing) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/568/398/
Hedges v. Obama, 724 F.3d 170 (2d Cir. 2013), cert. denied (upholding NDAA §1021 indefinite detention of U.S. citizens);
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/12-3176/12-3176-2013-07-17.html
Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, November 12, 1816 | National Archives - Founders
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-10-02-0390
BringOurTroopsHome.us – Defend the Guard tracker
https://defendtheguard.us/
Tenth Amendment Center’s model Liberty Preservation Act and state tracking; see https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/legislation/liberty-preservation-act/ for bill texts, statuses, and historical enactments (e.g., Virginia HB 1438, 2013)
H.Res. 5 (119th Congress), adopting House rules including provisions for en bloc amendments to general appropriations bills that transfer funds to a “spending reduction account” (effectively zeroing out programs); see full text at https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/5/text
Oklahoma: The resolution passed as House Concurrent Resolution 1028 (HCR 1028) https://oksenate.gov/press-releases/oklahoma-sovereignty-resolution-clears-senate
Yahoo Finance: House passes Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, blocks digital dollar rollout https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1919
Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association resolution
https://cspoa.org/cspoa-resolution/
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