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  1. …in reply to @OrinKerr
    @OrinKerr This is the final chapter in Congressional oversight, owing to a judiciary that is unwilling to either balance the deference it gives branches or to dispense with phony claims in anything less than months/ years. Oh, and an executive branch that willed 2USC§194 out of existence.
    1. …in reply to @augustf
      @OrinKerr Realistically, in a world where both parties have spent the past few decades packing the courts with former OLC lawyers whose only job was to empower the executive branch to rule by decree and often in contradiction to specific legal enactments, was there another outcome?