And now for a moment of clarity.

This is not my particular area of legal expertise on this violation of the 30-day notice requirement,

but this is also of a piece with a lot of these other firings and reassignments of senior executive service career people,

which is not supposed to happen

within 120 days of a new administration.

So it's just, you know, dispensing with these things.

The dismantling for me is part of this deconstruction of the administrative state

that we've known coming for a while.

But what I think was profound this week was a couple of things.

One was the swiftness of it.

Didn't surprise me, but it was just like, okay, they really do have their act together this time.

But then the sheer sort of deliberate and even the sort of, you know,

meanful glee of dismantling civil rights in the country. You have, for example, Washington Post reporting,

the Justice Department has ordered the civil rights division to halt

much of its investigative activity, dating from the Biden administration, and not pursue a new indictments,

cases or settlements, according to a memo sent to the temporary head of the division that was

obtained by the Washington Post. When you look at what they're doing

internally with, you know, responsibilities regarding investigations, but then more broadly

what they're doing just, you know, on the DEI front, just stripping that out and just sort

of putting everything in one big DEI bucket.

But then, then with the executive order upending President Johnson's executive order on civil rights for federal agencies,

what is the ripple effect of this? Do you see potential lawsuits? Do you see the Congress coming back and going, wait a minute, time out?

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