In the weeks since Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the president and his party have embarked on a concerted campaign to unmake the American government. He has signed sixty executive orders in an effort to, among other things, immediately freeze government spending, rescind birthright citizenship (a constitutional right), suspend the resettlement of humanitarian refugees, and prevent transgender people from legally transitioning by officially defining sex as an “immutable biological classification” at conception, whereby a zygote is male if it will one day produce the “small reproductive cell.” Meanwhile, employees of the Department of Government Efficiency—an organization with a broad remit to “maximize government efficiency” that is accountable only to Trump and Elon Musk, the richest man in the world—have attempted to seize the Treasury Department’s purse, fired tens of thousands of federal employees, and gone a long way toward closing offices, like USAID, that technically cannot be shut down without Congress’s permission. Many of these actions are liable to be unconstitutional. While a number of unions, government watchdog groups, and state attorney generals have filed lawsuits …