District 6 City Councilor Ben Weber’s No Kings resolution wasn’t filed in time to recognize that our country is fighting for independence from monarchy on July 4, 2025, but that’s not stopping him from urging his colleagues to support the resolution at the next council meeting.
Weber tried filing it as a late file last week, but late files need to be approved unanimously, and for whatever reason, not every councilor supported the resolution should be admitted.
Weber said the resolution stressed the separation of powers between the three branches of government are an integral part of how our framers drafted the Constitution.
“As James Madison wrote in Federalist Paper No. 47, ‘The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny’” said Weber. “What we are seeing now, however, is a consolidation of authoritarian power in one person with both Congress and the Supreme Court helping the President every step of the way.”…