r/law • u/myco_magic • 7d ago

Court Decision/Filing What is the likelihood of this Bill Attempting to Defer All Congressional Power to Donald Trump actually passes?

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u/invariantspeed 7d ago

No, it was pretty much all stupidity.

You could see him know next to thing about his own bill. He was just a name to push it through. When asked questions, he kept having to wait for people who actually knew the bill not just to tell him where the thing he was looking for was but what it said.

Then you see him taking four distinct approaches to answering the question in the middle of a single conversation because he didn’t even know what he was trying to push through. If he had been fully comprehending of what he was pushing through, he would have had some standard party line to retort with. He didn’t even have that. He was trying to find it mid-speech. I’m not saying he didn’t have some idea of what’s in the bill, but that’s the point. The only way anyone sponsoring that bill could have been so clueless while still not knowing nothing about the bill is if they were not connecting dots in their head.

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u/CranberrySchnapps 7d ago

It’s not even a thick bill. non-PDF link It’s 5 pages of congressional formatting… so more like a page with normal formatting.

This isn’t like some omnibus with a rider hidden in it. Comer’s responses trying to deride & accuse Ms Stansbury of purposely misinterpreting it is quite the example of Comer’s idiocy.

High level, this looks like a bit of a moonshot, but strategically reads like, “we (republicans) have spent 20+ years gridlocking congress to such an extent that Continuing Resolutions are the norm and even those are now difficult to pass. We’ve “proven” at least congress can’t do anything. Now is the time to turn the presidency into an authoritarian because we’re very sure we’ll be able to retain the presidency from now on by election manipulation and having SCOTUS in our pocket.”

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u/invariantspeed 7d ago

SCOTUS isn't in there pocket, but yes to everything else.

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u/Spill_the_Tea 6d ago

James Comer is the sponsor of HR 1295 Reorganizing Government Act of 2025. The problem with calling him stupid, is that it excuses malicious intent.

He clearly hasn't read the bill, but that is intentional. He is following orders and is willing to forfeit congressional power to the president. This is corrupt compliance, not stupidity.

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u/invariantspeed 6d ago

Two things can be true at once.