Prof. Jack Goldsmith writes here about the "decaying legal culture" in the Defense Department. Excerpt:
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth came to office openly hostile to his department’s legal culture and determined to change it. He is succeeding. One result is persistent lawbreaking by the Department of Defense in derogation of the rule-of-law culture that the department has fostered since Vietnam. The courts, which have done an admirable job of checking the administration’s legal violations, cannot help here, since these matters are beyond judicial review. That leaves Congress, which, largely due to Republican control, has been sadly passive in Trump 2.0. When the reckoning comes, the Armed Services Committees in Congress will have a lot of explaining to do.
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