Alex Wagner

They can't do it. They are... stopping grants, they're freezing cancer research because they think courts will say it's fine.

Yes, because their position, the way these two things are sort of different sides of the same coin is that the only person with any power is the president and everything flows from him. And therefore, any part of the administrative state or the executive that doesn't do exactly what his whims are moment to moment is illegitimate.

Yes, because their position, the way these two things are sort of different sides of the same coin is that the only person with any power is the president and everything flows from him. And therefore, any part of the administrative state or the executive that doesn't do exactly what his whims are moment to moment is illegitimate.

Yes, because their position, the way these two things are sort of different sides of the same coin is that the only person with any power is the president and everything flows from him. And therefore, any part of the administrative state or the executive that doesn't do exactly what his whims are moment to moment is illegitimate.

Again, I mean, what they've done in the Department of Justice, as my favorite dog on the internet, Southpaw, said, would be a scandal, an administration-consuming scandal. Like, there's a bunch of stuff they've done already. For instance, dropping cases hasn't happened in the post-Watergate era that Active cases just get dropped on day one, the way that they've dropped cases against Jan 6 folks.

Again, I mean, what they've done in the Department of Justice, as my favorite dog on the internet, Southpaw, said, would be a scandal, an administration-consuming scandal. Like, there's a bunch of stuff they've done already. For instance, dropping cases hasn't happened in the post-Watergate era that Active cases just get dropped on day one, the way that they've dropped cases against Jan 6 folks.

Again, I mean, what they've done in the Department of Justice, as my favorite dog on the internet, Southpaw, said, would be a scandal, an administration-consuming scandal. Like, there's a bunch of stuff they've done already. For instance, dropping cases hasn't happened in the post-Watergate era that Active cases just get dropped on day one, the way that they've dropped cases against Jan 6 folks.

Yeah. For example, the Hunter Biden case was not dropped. Not only was it not dropped, they got a little special little universe to keep going.

Yeah. For example, the Hunter Biden case was not dropped. Not only was it not dropped, they got a little special little universe to keep going.

Yeah. For example, the Hunter Biden case was not dropped. Not only was it not dropped, they got a little special little universe to keep going.

Yeah, they gave it a bonus unit. So, right. That's a great comparison. The conception of the Department of Justice as basically... serving the president specifically and personally, as opposed to serving the nation, the constitution, which is clearly what they view is totally new.

Yeah, they gave it a bonus unit. So, right. That's a great comparison. The conception of the Department of Justice as basically... serving the president specifically and personally, as opposed to serving the nation, the constitution, which is clearly what they view is totally new.

Yeah, they gave it a bonus unit. So, right. That's a great comparison. The conception of the Department of Justice as basically... serving the president specifically and personally, as opposed to serving the nation, the constitution, which is clearly what they view is totally new.

And the firing of career department of justice officials, which again, who have statutory legal civil servant protection, which makes it illegal to fire them in this manner, just full stop. Like, do you want your Meat inspection and the people running nuclear safety and the frontline prosecutors to be people who were in Donald Trump's truth, social replies or were hanging around him at Mar-a-Lago.

And the firing of career department of justice officials, which again, who have statutory legal civil servant protection, which makes it illegal to fire them in this manner, just full stop. Like, do you want your Meat inspection and the people running nuclear safety and the frontline prosecutors to be people who were in Donald Trump's truth, social replies or were hanging around him at Mar-a-Lago.

And the firing of career department of justice officials, which again, who have statutory legal civil servant protection, which makes it illegal to fire them in this manner, just full stop. Like, do you want your Meat inspection and the people running nuclear safety and the frontline prosecutors to be people who were in Donald Trump's truth, social replies or were hanging around him at Mar-a-Lago.

And that's the reason they got the job. Or do you want people who know how to inspect meat, preserve nuclear safety, prosecute cases like they are? Like when I said a machine politics with nuclear weapons, this is purge. of merit-based hiring. Can I say one more thing? Can I do one riff here? Please. Dude, just go.

And that's the reason they got the job. Or do you want people who know how to inspect meat, preserve nuclear safety, prosecute cases like they are? Like when I said a machine politics with nuclear weapons, this is purge. of merit-based hiring. Can I say one more thing? Can I do one riff here? Please. Dude, just go.

And that's the reason they got the job. Or do you want people who know how to inspect meat, preserve nuclear safety, prosecute cases like they are? Like when I said a machine politics with nuclear weapons, this is purge. of merit-based hiring. Can I say one more thing? Can I do one riff here? Please. Dude, just go.

Literally, the way that we conceive of the civil service protections that happen starting in the late 19th century under the Hayes administration and continue that turned the federal government from a spoil system machine to what we have now. is a merit system. The incredible thing is what they are doing is they are attacking the merit system.