I suppose it depends on which part of the “plan” you’re referring to. The parts where they want to strip down the bureaucratic state (federal agencies etc) is probably somewhat achievable under executive authority, but that will still take a while to accomplish because there are procedures in place that prevent just wholesale doing away with a lot of stuff, not to mention the court cases that will likely arise out of some of that.
To relieve a little bit of panic, something like banning pornography as a general statement (even the GBT portion) is going to be a major uphill battle, even with the conservative majority SCOTUS. The conservatives on the court are largely originalists, and despite being conservative they take a pretty hard-line free speech view of most things - the “test” that they use revolves around determining if the speech is calling for action that will cause imminent (physical) harm. Pornography does not meet that threshold.
Edit: To address defunding public schools, those are run by states. The Dept of Education gives some money to them, but most school funding in most places is acquired via property taxes or other local taxes for the area. The Federal government, project 2025 or no, can’t do much about that.
That’s pretty wild that they think that they can get enough votes to pull off anything like that.
Ultimately, I suppose it all comes down to what the representatives in congress do.
I wonder if anyone has come up with form letters about ratifying ICESCR?
They would be breaking an international treaty to write any laws that block a number of social services programs, post ratification, based on my understanding, not being a lawyer, and all that.
I suppose it depends on which part of the “plan” you’re referring to. The parts where they want to strip down the bureaucratic state (federal agencies etc) is probably somewhat achievable under executive authority, but that will still take a while to accomplish because there are procedures in place that prevent just wholesale doing away with a lot of stuff, not to mention the court cases that will likely arise out of some of that.
To relieve a little bit of panic, something like banning pornography as a general statement (even the GBT portion) is going to be a major uphill battle, even with the conservative majority SCOTUS. The conservatives on the court are largely originalists, and despite being conservative they take a pretty hard-line free speech view of most things - the “test” that they use revolves around determining if the speech is calling for action that will cause imminent (physical) harm. Pornography does not meet that threshold.
Edit: To address defunding public schools, those are run by states. The Dept of Education gives some money to them, but most school funding in most places is acquired via property taxes or other local taxes for the area. The Federal government, project 2025 or no, can’t do much about that.
That’s pretty wild that they think that they can get enough votes to pull off anything like that.
Ultimately, I suppose it all comes down to what the representatives in congress do.
I wonder if anyone has come up with form letters about ratifying ICESCR?
They would be breaking an international treaty to write any laws that block a number of social services programs, post ratification, based on my understanding, not being a lawyer, and all that.