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"The deal was negotiated without the input of the trial team, catching even the lead counsel by surprise." Is trial team a technical term? How would you negotiate without the people people most familiar with the case.

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So, here's the reality of American admnistration: It's all mostly delegation. In my state, we have house rules that all say "blah blah blah or as provided by the comissioner". But we never talk to the commissioner. They never deal with our rules directly. They delgate their reponsibility to about 4 layers of supervisors down to the technical manager. We deal with the technical manager. Whenever we read a rule that references the commissioner, that's just the technical manager.

Now, this essentially means if a delusional actor was ever put into the seat of commissioner, they could fire everyone and do whatever, because theres no delegation requirement.

I'd hazard, thats all that matters: remove the delegation and they're still following laws because the system fundamentally works by delegation for a large swath of the functioning. Remove the delegation and it looks like fiefdoms, lords and ladies.

Insert the astronaut with a gun meme (always has been). Lords and ladies also delegated to administrative functionaries, with similar results and dynamics. The difference here is that the commissioners are, hopefully, democratically elected, under the dictates and regulation of the U.S. and state constitutions. Which is a key difference.

It's pretty easy to negotiate donations to any of Trump's many businesses or PACs.

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