OA1122 - We’re not even three weeks into the second Trump administration and already well into our first Constitutional crisis. How was the world’s richest man given access to the nation’s checkbook and the total authority to shut down a $40 billion federal agency with 10,000 employees--and can he be stopped?  After a quick review of some recent good news, we try to understand how Donald Trump and Elon Musk are illegally reshaping the federal government before closing out the news sandwich with a big L for the Proud Boys. <ul> <li> <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276959/gov.uscourts.dcd.276959.23.0.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">D.C. District Court judge Royce Lambert’s order in Doe v. McHenry protecting trans prisoners</a> (2/4/25) </li> <li> <a href= "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Trump’s executive order establishing the Department of Governmental Efficiency</a> (1/20/25) </li> <li> <a href= "https://www.vox.com/politics/398068/trump-musk-power-grab-hungary-orban" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">“The Trump-Musk power grab has happened before--in Hungary,”</a> Zach Beauchamp Vox (2/5/25) </li> <li> <a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10261" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">“U.S. Agency for International Development: An Overview,”</a> Congressional Research Service (1/6/25) </li> </ul> Check out the OA <a href= "https://linktr.ee/openingarguments" rel= "noopener noreferrer nofollow">Linktree</a> for all the places to go and things to do! To support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at <a href= "https://patreon.com/law">patreon.com/law</a>!

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