Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann partner David Coale’s latest op-ed, “How litigation could end DOGE’s Schrödinger’s agency status,” was recently published in the influential D.C.-based publication The Hill. 

In the piece, Coale examines how, facing a wave of litigation because of its actions, the Department of Government Efficiency must finally confront a fundamental question: Is it part of the federal government or not? 

“Schrödinger’s cat, famously, alive and dead at the same time, would have felt at home in the Department of Government Efficiency. Depending on the legal issue at hand, DOGE claims to be both part of and separate from the federal government,” Mr. Coale writes.  

Read his full article here.