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During its first few weeks, the Trump Administration has unleashed a flurry of measures to radically reshape the federal government. Many of these moves are overtly unlawful. This paper identifies the legal problems with many prominent actions: closing federal agencies or departments and removing federal employees, ending the independence of independent agencies, placing employees on indefinite administrative leave, or pressing them to resign.[[2]](https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/many-trump-administration-personnel-actions-are-unlawful#_ftn2)

  • Hegar@fedia.io
    585·
    4 days ago

    Pretending that the law matters during a fascist coup is not productive.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      311·
      4 days ago

      Claims to illegality are part of the toolset of building the opposition to respond to a coup. “It’s all over, what the law says doesn’t matter” is what’s actually counterproductive.

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        121·
        4 days ago

        Acknowledging the failure of the legal system is hardly a dissuasion from action.

      • pathos@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 days ago

        It’s even more important as during such a coup, the law gets instrumentalized as a tool of oppression. Owning the rule of law to defend democratic intent is necessary to prevent such instrumentalization as much as possible.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      171·
      4 days ago

      Indeed. We have a vague notion of law at this point with such deep cracks in the foundation.

      Mostly, there’s just power. Whatever I can get away with is valid.