Post

I don’t want to scare anyone, but basically every time I talk to a current or former government lawyer they tell me we are going to need a new Constitution. Because this one is inoperative.

The civil service, and government agencies that can deal with things like modern science, simply cannot exist without effectively a complete revamp of our admin law. Project 2025 and the Roberts Court (allow for substantial overlap) killed our Constitutional guardrails.

Usually the convo goes like this: [Senior govt atty] Yeah, things are bad in my agency, man [Me] I’m at NIH, lemme tell you [atty, getting excited] Hard to know what’s legal, rly [me]Yeah, almost seems admin law is dead [atty, now laser eyes] OF COURSE IT IS WE WILL NEED A NEW CONSTITUTION

And then usually: [atty looking embarassed] Sorry I don’t like to talk about that all the time, but I think about it every day, and let’s be real here we all know what’s happening I’ve had a convo like this with at least a dozen ppl fm diff agencies over the last yr and it always hits me hard

#DC peeps, is it just me or do you get this too?

Here’s an example of Trump, Vought, and John Roberts blowing up civil service law.” From @democracyforward.org complaint today “he was informed of his termination in a 3-sentence letter from RFK Jr, who claimed to be acting "Ip]ursuant to the U.S. Constitution, Article II, § 2, cl. 2." 😂😂

This probably won’t fly and the courts will act, it’s too egregious. But the fact that Dr. Lane was removed with this wild circumvention of civil service law and he has to litigate this shows just how badly the system has broken down.

We may need a new Constitution But we need even more to stop the nation from drowning in lies that persuade voters to elect con artists Laws do not enforce themselves. And con artists ignore them. If the gov is dominated by con artists, no Constitution will constrain them bsky.app/profile/upin...

Quick clarification: I think we need massive Supreme Court reform, to end juristocracy, up to and including docket control, jurisdiction stripping, and even making a new Court. We need to empower Congress and agencies and weaken the presidency. That MAY be able to be done within this Constitution.