Lots to say about this but I’ll just observe that this decision is based on the idea that private parties suing to make government officials comply with the law *are themselves* “officers of the United States” subject to the Appointments Clause. Which should sound weird because it is.

Oyyyyyyyyyyyyy

That feels very sovereign citizen adjacent

Mizelle is a Thomas clerk, and this is Thomas’s view.

Particularly because the Supreme Court, in an opinion written by Justice Scalia in 2000, held that FCA relators are *assignees* of the government's right to sue, which is flatly inconsistent with this holding. Mizelle is acting like a recent Justice Thomas dissent overruled that opinion of the Court