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A Supreme Court case related to the Spending Clause.
, settled legal authority to withhold federal payments to individuals or businesses; the constitutional landscape is governed by Spending Clause limits, anti-coercion principles, and a body of precede...
The federal power to withhold or condition grants to states flows principally from the Spending Clause—Article I, Section 8—which gives Congress broad authority to spend for the “general Welfare” and ...
The Supreme Court has fashioned a compact set of precedents that let Congress use the Spending Clause to attach conditions to federal grants, but only within express limits: conditions must be unambig...
can play a role in federal real-estate projects, but constitutional and statutory guardrails constrain when and how that money may be accepted, conditioned, or used—rooted in precedent, the , and proc...
City and state plaintiffs have won or obtained injunctions against federal attempts to withhold funds by framing their claims around separation of powers and Spending Clause limits, alleging executive...