[…] David M. Driesen, a Syracuse University law professor, said Tillis’ comparison is faulty.
“There is no precedent for withholding monies across the board because of broad policy disagreement with the law,” Driesen said. “That is a frontal attack on the legislative authority of Congress.”
If lawmakers don’t challenge DOGE, by passing new laws or going to court, they risk losing the powers Congress has held for two and a half centuries. Driesen and other legal experts said judges might consider the lack of congressional opposition as they decide cases on this question.
“That shouldn’t matter at all as a matter of constitutional law,” Bowman said. “But I suspect that for some judges, the silence might carry some weight.”
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its part of the problem. general populace still isnt impacted and people still think they can wait it out. it literally took a pandemic for people to sit up and give a shit last time and half of them were pissed because they had to wear a mask.
look at how our representatives are acting. zero shits given. no organizing on their part etc. I went to the protests the other week, it was the standard group of people who show up at every protest, the old women from the suffrage movement and LGBT+ align individuals. very small groups.
its unfortunate it but here we are. I’m just going to continue doing my shit trying to get my old antifa group back up and running, but it’ll take a bit since we literally have to connect without digital comms initially and re-establish everything we shut down. But our little groups are not going to be sufficient for this, so most activity will be muted until the populace gets active.