The ILLEGALITY of DOGE

George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

George Conway and Jonathan V. Last, in for Sarah Longwell, discuss Chief Justice Roberts’ late night decision to pause order to pay foreign aid, the constitutional legality of DOGE, Dan Bongino as FBI Deputy Director, and what the future holds for the conservative legal establishment.

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0:34.8	States.
0:35.4	Who does he report to?
0:37.1	He reports to the president.
0:39.2	Or maybe the president reports to him.
0:40.9	That constitution doesn't deal with that.
0:43.7	But it is an extra legal arrangement, clearly, right?
0:48.1	One might say illegal.
0:53.9	Hello, everyone. This is George Conway.
0:56.4	Explains it all to Sarah Longwell. He's George Conway. I am not Sarah Longwell. I'm her best friend, JVL, sitting in for her.
1:03.7	George, everything's terrible, like normal.
1:07.4	Everything's awful. Just perfectly. Everything's just going exactly according to plan.
1:12.5	So, uh, disaster.
1:13.8	Illegal.
1:14.4	You got it.
1:15.4	Well, I'm so happy we get to have this conversation today because I had a lot of questions about legal stuff today, starting with John Roberts stepping in last night to issue a stay of a decision.
1:30.0	I'll try to set the table for 15 seconds here for people, and then you can just go.
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