This Needs Fixin'

So, Trump is firing Inspector Generals again.

Second verse, same as the first.

I’ve addressed this specific problem with the U.S.’ concept of executive oversight here several times; see the search.

There’s a wrinkle that I hadn’t mentioned before, at least.

See, the President actually can’t fire Inspector Generals without a 30-day notice to Congress.

Which, needless to say, he did not provide.

So, legally, those (17 at last count) Inspector Generals are not fired.

And yet somehow they are?

As Robert Anton Wilson might be paraphrased:

Law Is What You Can Get Away With.

And so far, at least, Trump and Musk have been getting away with an awful lot.

Which is why we need an explicitly dual executive: the President and an Overseer, each with their own independent and constitutionally described powers.

Because if the law is whatever you can get away with, then there is effectively no law at all.

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