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The Battle over the Constitution Has Spread to American Science. I'm out in the @theatlantic.com today about the new OMB proposed rule. It's just the longtime agenda of the the Supreme Court. US science and cancer cures now all depend on us picking up a fight with the Roberts Court.

a fight about the meaning of the US Constitution. We're in a separation of powers battle. Science, innovation, and medical reasearch will be collateral damage. Scientists, the public, all academics, and everyone who cancer or dementia has touched will need to work together now.

as @joshchafetz.bsky.social put it it here, "the underlying unitary executive logic has moved to [grantmaking]." Thus it now threatens the whole relationship between the federal government and society, because the US government uses funding for all sorts of purposes.

also, don't blame me for the hyphen in "unitary-executive theory." I argued with the Atlantic copyeditors!

Many thanks to @narosenblum.bsky.social who has provided a lot of advice and insight. (Any errors are ofc mine alone!) One of the things I couldn’t get into here was how the Trump admin cited Arthrex in firing the whole Natl Science Board. Read Noah’s excellent article w/ @rickhills.bsky.social -