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@markhisted.org

The Battle over the Constitution Has Spread to American Science. I'm out in the @theatlantic.com today about the new OMB proposed rule. It's just the longtime agenda of the the Supreme Court. US science and cancer cures now all depend on us picking up a fight with the Roberts Court.

theatlantic.comThe Unitary Executive Takes Over New TerritoryThe Trump administration’s theory of how the federal government should work is a threat to American science.

@markhisted.org

a fight about the meaning of the US Constitution. We're in a separation of powers battle. Science, innovation, and medical reasearch will be collateral damage. Scientists, the public, all academics, and everyone who cancer or dementia has touched will need to work together now.

17/6/26, 4:13 pm10 reposts42 likes

@markhisted.org

The MAGA theory of how the federal government should work is a threat to US science. That's right.

@markhisted.org

as @joshchafetz.bsky.social put it it here, "the underlying unitary executive logic has moved to [grantmaking]." Thus it now threatens the whole relationship between the federal government and society, because the US government uses funding for all sorts of purposes.

Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social

4/4 Anyway, I've got more to say about this in the removals context in a forthcoming piece, but it is notable that the underlying UET logic has moved out of the removals context and into the entirety of policymaking.

@markhisted.org

also, don't blame me for the hyphen in "unitary-executive theory." I argued with the Atlantic copyeditors!

@markhisted.org

Many thanks to @narosenblum.bsky.social who has provided a lot of advice and insight. (Any errors are ofc mine alone!) One of the things I couldn’t get into here was how the Trump admin cited Arthrex in firing the whole Natl Science Board. Read Noah’s excellent article w/ @rickhills.bsky.social -

scholarship.law.duke.edu "Presidential Administration After Arthrex" by Noah A. Rosenblum and Roderick M. Hills Jr. The federal government employs over 2 million civilian workers, all but a few thousand of whom enjoy forms of tenure and insulation from presidential control. This bureaucracy, sometimes called "the a...