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Could they please start using the correct name? Department of Defense?
by jghn 8mo ago
Could they please start using the correct name? Department of Defense?
- Jeremy1026 8mo agoThey still want that contract so they'll continue to pander.
- krapp 8mo agoThe correct name is the Department of War. Calling it the Department of Defense implies a system of laws, checks and balances which no longer exists.
- jwkpiano1 8mo agoIt very much still exists, and statements like this are what’s called “obeying in advance.” Don’t do it.
- krapp 8mo agoI'm sorry but it does not very much still exist. Otherwise, Congress would be doing something other than praying for the Anointed One and his holy war. I'm not obeying in advance, but I'm not giving lip service to normality, either.
- jwkpiano1 8mo agoYou are. Congress could stop this right now if they wanted. That they aren’t is of course a problem, but that’s very different than saying the system of checks and balances doesn’t exist. The latter is giving the executive power it doesn’t have.
- karmasimida 8mo agoYou should respect the government’s choice. It is elected after all
- jwkpiano1 8mo agoThe executive doesn’t pass laws. Congress created the Department of Defense. Only Congress can rename it. The executive being elected is irrelevant to this point. The Constitution actually matters.
- jghn 8mo agoIt is the DoD u tip congress says otherwise
- krapp 8mo agoCongress hasn't said otherwise, so...
- jwkpiano1 8mo agoThis isn’t how this works. Laws don’t change just because the executive decides it’s going to ignore them. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/111 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/111
- jghn 8mo agoOnly Congress has the authority to change the name. Given they *haven't* authorized it, the name remains DoD. It doesn't work the other way around.
- gentleman11 8mo agothey should rename it to the department of invasions, domestic surveillance, and coups
- charcircuit 8mo agoDepartment of War is correct. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest...
- jwkpiano1 8mo agoExecutive orders aren’t laws. This is: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/111 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/111.
- charcircuit 8mo agoNot all actions that are taken at an executive agency are done because of a law.
- jwkpiano1 8mo agoLet me state this very simply: executive agencies have only the power granted to them by Congress. So yes, all actions taken by an executive agencies are bound by the law. Anything else is ultra vires and of no effect.