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Comment by ch4s3 | Hacker News Reader

No, a few law firms targeted by EOs fought them in court last year and won.

Also the case against tariffs, a quick (maybe AI hallucinated) search shows `Victor Owen Schwartz` was part of the challenge.

Democracy isn't dead folks, but it takes more work than usual.

It always takes a ton of work to roll back state over reach. The Bound By Oath podcast by the Institute for Justice has a whole season about how hard it is to bring civil rights claims against the government or government officials.

And gets harder in a country where even the judges are political appointees and apparently that’s by design. (I resisted adding a smiley here because this is rather sad)

The courts are actually striking down a lot of government overreach recently. The tariffs were just overturned, and the administration was blocked from using the national guard for law enforcement. In fact this administration has lost more Supreme Court cases than any other administration at only 1 year in.

The problem is that it's a never ending game of attrition, and the government can always outspend you.

For example, in case of tariffs, they found another loophole and went on their way.

It's nice to have a little guy take a stand, but without major collective pressure, nothing will change.

We are in a period of resistance, fighting for the next election so we can apply major collective pressure. Then he will be the lamest of ducks.

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