The basic premise of your post seems to be that the government has unrestricted power and cannot do (or allow to be done by proxy) anything illegal, but that is

The basic premise of your post seems to be that the government has unrestricted power and cannot do (or allow to be done by proxy) anything illegal, but that isn’t true. There’s several hundred years of legal history of state and federal governments being taken to court and made to stop or undo actions deemed to violate the law.