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[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

How do all these resignations not just completely help this administration do whatever the hell they want? If everyone that disagrees with them just resigns, the only people left will just be a bunch of ring kissers. Are they just depending on the bad publicity from so many resignations to do the work instead? Is there something I'm missing?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

To some degree, it slows them down. The top layer of management that has day to day authority for things like approving accounts for system access, having signing authority for anything, knowing how to find the things they want to kill, etc.

Appointees can often legally do these things as well, but for many things involving money, it takes extra steps that appointees don't usually do to avoid liability.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Liability is the key here.

If someone carries out an illegal order, then they are subject to the consequences. The Nazis didn't have to commit human rights violations - they "followed illegal orders" which was not a valid defense. The consequences may have been forced resignation or execution, but if you carried out the human rights abuse to avoid execution, fat lot of good it did since they ended up executed anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Welcome to a core aspect of the lawsuits so far and under whose legal authority contracts can be canceled.

It's not a liability issue, it's about details of under what legal authority based on job roles things can happen, and who is or isn't around to exercise those authorities.

A contracting officer doesn't spring from the head of Zeus fully grown and convered in the armor of niche personal liability insurance. They are legally required to take specific trainings before they can have signing authority. That's the law... Today at least. And the GOP has struggled with it because thinking and details are hard for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

They will do whatever they want. Probably just fire all the Contracting Officers. Then invalidate the contracts and refuse payment. Then buy everything under some emergency authority and have the agency head approve everything.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 18 hours ago

Thank you for posting those related articles because if just had to go off the OP alone I would have no earthly idea which terrifying dystopian move was being discussed

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

If by wild, you mean horrifying?

Yes.