Didn’t the government argue in court that Musk is just an advisor? Is Trump telling him to advise more aggressively?

This administration is more likely to punish the NYT for finding the “mistake” than it is to punish anyone in DOGE for being involved in it.

But I thought misgendering someone isn’t a crime on twitter?!

Trump, his handpicked Cabinet officials, and Musk have also disregarded or openly attacked the other two co-equal branches of government, accusing judges who have moved to halt or limit the new administration’s actions of being Democratic partisans.

It says Trump and his cronies have disregarded or attacked both other branches, but the article only provides examples related to the judicial branch. What have they done to the legislative branch, besides steal its power without any complaints from the Republicans in charge over there? Bypassing a complicit and complacent Congress doesn’t feel like it’s on the same level as ignoring court orders and threatening to impeach judges.

The offer might have gone over slightly better if the US Secretary of Defense hadn’t already ruled out NATO membership and a return to Ukraine’s 2014 borders.

She didn’t dismiss the case, she just refused their request to be reinstated while the case proceeds. And it was an emergency request, where the IGs not filing quickly makes it look less like an emergency.

She declined to fast track the case like the IGs wanted. It will still be handled in due time. Trump fired the IGs without the required 30 day noticed, and if they were reinstated there’d be nothing to stop him from firing them properly, so fast tracking the case wouldn’t really accomplish much.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that when we’re dealing with unprecedented attacks on democracy maybe people are slow moving at figuring out how they can legally fight back and perhaps it took them that long to put together a legal argument.

Part of the judge’s issue was that the court has bigger attacks to deal with than Trump firing these guys faster than he was supposed to.

Look at the first section I quoted - they presented a half baked argument even moving at that pace.

The inspectors general in this case had argued that a judge’s order this week to temporarily reinstate another government watchdog — Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel — while that court challenge progresses had supported their own request to have the inspectors general immediately reinstated while their case proceeds.

But Reyes deemed that argument flimsy and scolded the plaintiffs for making it. Dellinger, Reyes said, leads an independent agency, and Trump needs a strong reason to remove him. In comparison, Reyes said, Trump needs only to provide Congress with 30 days’ notice and a written explanation to remove an inspector general. She added that even if she had immediately reinstated the watchdogs Friday, the president could simply move to have them fired again after 30 days.

So the IGs didn’t make a strong argument…

In particular, Reyes admonished the plaintiffs for waiting 21 days after the inspectors general were fired to request a temporary restraining order, an emergency motion that requires the court to move immediately to hear the case because the matter is so urgent.

Using the legal parlance for a temporary restraining order, she continued, “Are we really here right now on the sixth hearing of this day for me to decide whether to grant a TRO given the circumstances that you guys could not even bother filing a TRO for 21 days?”

And they waited 3 weeks to do it. The judge making them take the slower route seems reasonable.

DOJ is trying to dismiss the charges without prejudice so they can have leverage over Adams. I think the funniest option would be for the judge to dismiss with prejudice, removing their leverage and clearing the way for the state to bring charges against Adams without worrying about interfering with the feds.

And they’re trying to dismiss the charges without prejudice so they can charge him again if he doesn’t do what they want.

I would even go so far as to say most of the Trump administration’s personnel actions are likely unlawful.

The White House argues the law is unconstitutional, challenging limits on presidential power over independent agencies.

These people clearly don’t understand what “independent” means.

Danielle Smith would probably throw at fit if the federal government proposed that plan. Her sucking up to Trump got her a lower tariff rate on oil and she absolutely will not accept anything that would make the oil industry feel the same pain as the other industries affected by tariffs.

Please ignore that the president is ruining any government organization that could help get bird flu under control

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I don’t think judges are even overruling Trump at this point, just issuing injunctions and restraining orders to put things on hold while they sort out whether Trump is allowed to do what he’s trying to do.

They rewrote the taskbar and Start menu for Windows 11, and left out stuff like being able to move the taskbar or even have separate taskbar items for each instance of an application. Rewriting the whole OS would be a disaster.

I have enough money that I don’t worry, but not necessarily enough that I shouldn’t worry.