With neither powers of requirement nor of restriction, it must be recognized that the US Constitution is legally inoperative. This is to say that the US Republic has fallen.
The letterhead is still used, meetings are still held in [some] government buildings where agendas are distributed, correspondence is received for information and actionable items are addressed, reports are given, recommendations are discussed and debated, decisions are made, assignments, communications, etc. occur.
It looks like ‘business as usual.’ In a sense, it is. Except for one point.
With the collapse of the Republic, the United States of America doesn’t exist. It passed from the historical scene.
The question is: ‘so what’s next?’
That will be determined by the massive, social struggles about to be unleashed.
Get this wrong and the consequences will be unimaginable.