So I called GW law professor Richard Pierce yesterday. Pierce has written more than 20 books & 130 articles on administrative law and government regulation, & been cited in hundreds of judicial opinions. I asked Pierce about Elon/Vivek's plan to cut "thousands" of federal regulations w/o Congressional approval. Elon & Vivek said Wednesday that Trump can unilaterally, by executive action, "immediately pause the enforcement" of the regs identified by DOGE. Pierce said this will not work because doing so would violate the longstanding Administrative Procedures Act dictating how regulations can be overturned -- & he doesn't see even the highly conservative Supreme Court going along “It would be unbelievably outrageous and unlawful – there is nothing in the statute that comes anywhere close to authorizing what they want to do, and no permission in the Constitution," he said Pierce said if SCOTUS agreed it would be the most shocking decision since 1896's Plessy v. Ferguson “I can’t even imagine what the argument would be beyond, ‘Gee, there are a lot of regulations and we want to get rid of them.’”

@JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Getting a little tired of these little fucker, billionaires, grinning as talk about laying off millions of Americans and deporting millions more. This isn’t a fucking chess game for bored billionaires. These are peoples lives.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Millions of Federal workers, not people in the private sector. There’s a vast ocean of difference there. And as for the deportations… these are people who have taken advantage of a politically designed weakness for personal advantage. Every one of them must be kicked out.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Most Government employees are parasitic. That simple. They are not due a sinecure. We owe them nothing. What did Obama say about manufacturing jobs shipped overseas? “They’re not coming back”. “Learn to code.” Those were people’s lives too. But productive people.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Can I get 2k per month for housing, 600 for food, 2k pocket $, free healthcare, etc? NO, I AM A CITIZEN. I GET NOTHING BUT THE BILL. IT'S NOT ABOUT THEM, IT'S ABOIUT US REAL TAX PAYING CITIZENS THAT ARE GETTING FUCKED! CLEAR ENOUGH?

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Bloated don’t workers that don’t do shit except suck off public funding. Cut the waste and make them get real jobs in the private sector.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan These are ppl suckling off the taxpayers' teet at the expense of you and I! Wake up...

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan You nailed it. This IS a chess game for bored billionaires. They. Don't. Care. About anyone but themselves.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Tired already? We need to buckle up, the road to autocracy will be a painful one. Things that are unthinkable now will be normal in 2-3 years. We will pay dearly the historic error made on Nov 5.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan What’s that true statement… First they came for the Blacks but I said nothing, then they came for the Hispanics and I said nothing then they came for the Teachers…… you know what I’m getting at.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan deport the illegals :)

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan It's a matter of time. Eat the rich. Hundreds of top 1% billionaires but tens of millions of pissed off 99% victims of their greed & inhumane attitudes towards others. All of their money & property & bodyguards will not keep them safe once the pitchforks & torches come out.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Nah, we’re all just cattle to be herded…

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan The Pentagon doesn’t know where the money goes , the Dept of Ed has ruined US Ed standing in the world , the DOJ goes after a dad complaining about the rape of his daughter in school. The FBI plants evidence in FISA court . You’re a joke . The govt is bloated & out of control.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Patsy wants to burden future generations with debt so her gov employed friends still have a job that a retarded monkey could do better

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Deporting illegals. Illegals.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Oh, honey, these aren't people -- these are government employees.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Deport the damn criminals.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Well said! 💯!

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan And *they* are Psychopathologiclal sadists who enjoy causing, and then watching, the suffering of others.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan We are talking about 1929 levels of depression. Yall better do something. 😡😡😡

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan No, it's Roman Colosseum days all over again. Gotta love the "extremely popular" part. darkrome.com/blog/Rome/7-bl…

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Except that IT IS a fucking CHESS GAME for billionaires...

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Nobody is talking about deporting any Americans, let alone millions of them. Many will quit when forced back into the office every day. DC federal office building are 80% empty. Some “remote” workers have even moved away and kept the job.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan And they don’t give a damn about people’s lives.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan Well said. Billionaires should go back to buying premiere league football clubs and leave government alone.

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan

@MavinPatsy @JStein_WaPo @mehdirhasan No Americans are being deported.