Well, this is a refreshing change of pace. Kinda-sorta, in a manner of speaking.
DC judge blocks bid to stop DOGE mass firings, federal data access
A federal judge rejected an emergency request from Democrat-led states Tuesday to hamper cost-cutting efforts by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).Washington, DC, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan denied the petition by 14 Democratic states to issue a temporary restraining order against Musk and DOGE.
“Plaintiffs legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked authority of an unelected individual and an entity that was not created by Congress and over which it has no oversight,” Chutkan wrote.
“In these circumstances, it must be indisputable that this court acts within the bounds of its authority. Accordingly, it cannot issue a TRO, especially one as wide-ranging as Plaintiffs request, without clear evidence of imminent, irreparable harm to these Plaintiffs.”
Chutkan said that the plaintiffs, led by New Mexico, had not met the “high standard for irreparable injury.”
Oh, I dunno about all that, now. Seems to me that “imminent, irreparable harm” to these scum-slurping shitlib swine is basically the entire point of the exercise. Unless and until the baglappers have been harmed irreparably, their exsanguinated carcasses cast into Outer Darkness for all time, to the last man Jack of ’em, the job won’t be well and truly done. Otherwise, it just amounts to the same tired three-card-monte scam the DC Swamp critters have been running against America That Was all along, so why even bother? Then again, could be I’m all wet about the whole sordid mess.
However it all shakes out when all’s said and done, seeing a judge—ANY judge, a DC judge, no less—step up to prevent the shitlibs from getting their way rather than providing overt assistance as usual really IS a refreshing change of pace, no two ways about it.
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I’m thinking Trump and Musk and the Ballz Team stumbled upon (or deliberately found 😎) the Treasure Trove of blackmailable data the Deep State had on most, if not all, of these people.
Maybe hitting USAID and/or the Treasury outgoing payments is that trove.
Somehow though I think they had a lot of stuff already leading up to the Election.
Like how McTurtle suddenly pulled up in his shell, resigned his positions as GOP Leader, and Romenystain got replaced with Lara on the RNC…
“I’m thinking Trump and Musk…”
I have no doubt about that. I *knew* it when it suddenly became clear that Trump was going to get all his choices confirmed. I suspected it before, when Trump took over the R party, but those confirmation chances are what made it clear for me.
A three-day rolling survey of 3,298 MAGA members conducted last week has found that less than 0.002% of them are tired of winning yet.
And when SCOTUS does a connonball on about 20 upstart district court judges playing shenanigans, Kash Patel’s next order of business is going to be to start rounding up rogue federal judges issuing baseless unconstitutional restraining orders out of their own nethers, and start handing them off to someone in Gitmo.
Then it’s a party.
The packed Lear jet flights to countries without extradition treaties will commence about 5 minutes after that.
I just heard (unverified) that he’s getting rid of all ATF tactical teams. If trials follow, that would be even better.
Hope you’re “hearing” is good…
“0.002%”
That’s less than 1 of them, so it’s all good.
Trump and his legal team are going to have to treat the nonsense passed out by these federal judges – “irreparable harm” isn’t the standard, “ultra vires” – beyond the (Constitutional) power is. The three branches of government – executive, legislative, and judicial – are separate and co-equal. One branch cannot constitutionally tell one of the others how to run their affairs. The Administrative State and its constituent agencies are under the Executive Branch, and the President could simply, by proclamation, wipe out one of those agencies along with its minions and hangers-on, and there’s nothing any of the other branches can do about it under the Constitution. Similarly, the Executive can combine agencies or split them, and Congress and the judges can hee haw and yell, but it is not within their Constitutional power to do anything about it. See https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/neither-president-trump-nor-his-appointed Respect should be paid to the courts where respect is due, but it sets a dangerous precedent for President Trump to tolerate this unlawful invasion of his powers. If Presidents can create agencies by Executive orders, they can wipe them from existence as well.