Judge Napolitano alleged today, 3/26/2025, while on Newsmax, that President Trump has no authority to not allow the funding of NPR (National Public Radio).
But Napolitano ignores that part of our Constitution which gives a specification of particulars for which Congress may lawfully tax and spend, and also ignores the part of our Constitution requiring Trump to uphold the Constitution which grants no authority to Congress to tax, spend and finance a government created new service which has proven to be an institution used as a tool for propaganda.
So, let us look at the reasoning which such power was never delegated to Congress:
"The framers of the Constitution guarded so much against a possibility of such partial preferences as might be given, if Congress had the right to grant them, that, even to encourage learning and useful arts, the granting of patents is the extent of their power. And surely nothing could be less dangerous to the sovereignty or interest of the individual States than the encouragement which might be given to ingenious inventors or promoters of valuable inventions in the arts and sciences. The encouragement which the General Government might give to the fine arts, to commerce, to manufactures, and agriculture, might, if judiciously applied, redound to the honor of Congress, and the splendor, magnificence, and real advantage of the United States; but the wise framers of our Constitution saw that, if Congress had the power of exerting what has been called a royal munificence for these purposes, Congress might, like many royal benefactors, misplace their munificence; might elevate sycophants, and be inattentive to men unfriendly to the views of Government; might reward the ingenuity of the citizens of one State, and neglect a much greater genius of another. A citizen of a powerful State it might be said, was attended to, whilst that of one of less weight in the Federal scale was totally neglected. It is not sufficient, to remove these objections, to say, as some gentlemen have said, that Congress in incapable of partiality or absurdities, and that they are as far from committing them as my colleagues or myself. I tell them the Constitution was formed on a supposition of human frailty, and to restrain abuses of mistaken powers.” Annals of Congress Feb 7th,1792 Representative Page
So why is our federal government allowed to get away with such misappropriations of federal revenue? Because up till now, spineless Presidents have closed their eyes to such misappropriations of federal revenue, and media personalities like Judge Napolitano, who is a favorite guest on Newsmax, are not questioned and made to substantiate their outrageous opinions when presented as fact.
JWK
”That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. . .” Jefferson
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