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pat_k

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3. Holy crap. Not sufficiently proven??

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Feb 26, 2026, 04:51 PM

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Unauthorized demolition of the east wing was as much a violation of the property clause of the constitution as an unauthorized bombing of old faithful in Yellowstone would be.

To allow them to continue construction and thus benefit from such a blatant violation is intolerable idiocy.

The decision shouldn't even reach the question of whether privately-financed construction is somehow, magically, exempt from Congressional authority

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