What we’re witnessing is the breakdown of the federal judiciary as a functioning institution. When Reagan and Obama appointees are united in open revolt, and Harvie Wilkinson can’t figure out what the Supreme Court wants, the system has collapsed.
The three liberal Justices have been warning about this in dissent after dissent, while the conservative majority just keeps issuing more unexplained orders and then getting pissy when lower courts can’t read their minds. This isn’t jurisprudence. It’s government by judicial decree, where constitutional law operates on vibes and the only consistent principle is “give Trump whatever he wants.”
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Some judges thought they should just give up entirely and punt the case back to SCOTUS since SCOTUS has already said whatever they decide here doesn’t actually matter.
I’ve been feeling a tide of apathy picking up speed for years, even before Trump’s reinstallment. The gnawing feeling that nothing matters anymore, hard work doesn’t pay off, everything is rigged and hopeless–materializing in the form of people just kind of giving up, and everything across the board breaking a little more every day–permanently–because no one has the will to fix it anymore. Now that societal apathy has gone all the way up to the fucking Circuit Court of Appeals. 😮💨
Well at least they have not gone to the FU approach; say require all DOGE employees to be appointed by Congress and then give them the access to the data.
It gives the Supreme Court what they want but does it in a way that it undermines their intent.
That would likely be overturned by the appellate court. There is no law that reuires doge employees to be appointed by Congress.
Kirk the SC and get this shit back on track.