People do not understand how gummint works.
I worked for a state agency in the Executive Branch that was, per the La. constitution, independent of “interference” from the gov or the legislature.
And so we could try to be cooperative; but bottom line, we had no legal requirement to do anything they asked of us to do.
I’m all for cooperation. O tried using legal means to achieve what he wanted and got brought up short by a military judge who also did what was legal and refused the government’s request.