Reform Is Coming

"What is becoming increasingly clear is that the administration does not see itself as a litigant before the court and does not see its attorneys as bound by court orders. It sees DOJ attorneys as somehow coequal with SCOTUS, the only attorneys in the federal system not bound by…

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 2, 2026

"What is becoming increasingly clear is that the administration does not see itself as a litigant before the court and does not see its attorneys as bound by court orders. It sees DOJ attorneys as somehow coequal with SCOTUS, the only attorneys in the federal system not bound by ethical rules."

Like SCOTUS, which does not consider itself bound by ethical rules. It only pays lip service to them.

Meanwhile, in the OMB:

Russ Vought: "We fund what we need to fund. I'm not at all shy about we want to spend billions of dollars on a new shipyard. We're up there defending the $1.5t that the Department of War needs. But it's also coming at a ton of reduction on the non-defense side" pic.twitter.com/012BadHwZ4

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 2, 2026

Russell Vought is neither co-equal to, nor superior to, Congress. Art. I gives Congress the authority to allocate federal funds; not the executive branch, and certainly not OMB.

Congress can straighten that out. It can also straighten out the DOJ, and even impose enforceable ethical standards on the Supremes.

Maybe people aren’t voting for the Democratic Party. But they are voting for reform.