unconstitutional conditions doctrine – Foreign Tax Status Information Group (FTSIG)

The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine As Applied to President Trump

By ftsig-admin | November 8, 2025

As many of our readers have observed, a favorite tactic of President Trump has been to withhold the payment of federal funds authorized by Congress in order to coerce the recipients to surrender constitutional rights to satisfy the conditions of receiving the funds. This tactic violates the Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine as described below; Catalog of…

Microsoft Copilot: Can an obligation attached to a civil person in the future continue if the domicile or civil status that is the basis of it is extinguished before the date it triggers?

By ftsig-admin | August 31, 2025

EDITORIAL: This series of questions surrounds whether past actions by American nationals who incorrectly made a “U.S. person” election by filing a 1040 form while working for the government and accumulating pension credits can under 26 U.S.C. 864(c)(6) be used to COMPEL that same American national filing as a nonresident alien and protected by the…