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The firing of thousands of federal employees is not a small or common thing,
Chutkan responded
DOGE appears to be moving in no sort of predictable and orderly fashion, and plaintiffs are obviously scrambling to find out what’s next,
Chutkan saidI have not been able to look into that independently, or confirm that."
At one point, Chutkan asked whether thousands of federal employees were fired last week, to which a DOJ lawyer saidMr. Musk hasn’t been nominated, confirmed by Congress, or appointed to anything,
Chutkan said during an hourlong hearing on Monday, describing the states’ case
The suggestions by Trump, Musk and Vance that courts are impermissibly interfering with Trump’s mandate to lead is absurd,
said the former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade, who now teaches law at the University of Michigan
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The president is openly violating the US constitution by taking power from Congress and handing it to an unelected billionaire – while Elon Musk goes after judges who uphold the law and rule against them,
said Mayes
It’s pretty clear that what’s going on here is a very deliberate effort to create as much wreckage in the government as they can manage with a view to helping out the big Trump donors and special interests who find government obnoxious in various ways.”
Likening Trump’s firing of the IGs to “firing cops before you rob the bank”, Whitehouse stressedPresident Trump has not only afforded Elon Musk and Doge extraordinary power over federal agency operations with little public oversight and accountability, but he has also done so at the expense of Congress and its constitutionally mandated power,
said Donald Sherman, the chief counsel at the liberal-leaning watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.jpg)
It seems hard to believe that a judge could say, ‘We don’t want you to do that,’ so maybe we have to look at the judges because I think that’s a very serious violation.”
Trump, with Musk nearby in the Oval Office on Tuesday, echoed his Doge chief sayingIn the US, we appeal rulings we disagree with – we don’t ignore court orders or threaten judges with impeachment just because we don’t like the decision. This is a coup, plain and simple,
Arizona’s attorney general, Kris Mayes, saidTrump and Musk are gaslighting the American people. No one should believe Musk and his troops have actually discovered billions of dollars of waste, fraud, abuse and ‘corruption’. If they had, we would know the specifics. They can’t provide them and they won’t. At most, they have seen things that may need to be explained, but they haven’t bothered to seek the explanation from anyone with relevant knowledge.”
A former IG, who requested anonymity to speak freely, warned bluntlyAfter Musk reportedly spent close to $300m to help Trump get elected, Trump has been giving Musk what appears to be unprecedented access to the inner levers of government, including private and confidential information about individuals,
said Larry Noble, a former general counsel at the Federal Election Commission who now teaches law at American UniversityI think their claims that they’re going after waste, fraud and abuse is a complete smokescreen for their real intentions,
the Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse saidThe firing of IG Paul Martin, a highly respected and experienced inspector general, on the day after his office released a critical report, risks sending a chilling message that is antithetical to IGs’ ability to conduct impactful independent oversight on behalf of the American taxpayer,
said the ex-defense department IG Robert StorchWhile federal judges expect people to disagree with their opinions, I have long feared that personal attacks like those from Trump and Musk against at least one New York judge would expose them to harm and even death,
said the former federal judge and Dickinson College president, John JonesWell, I always abide by the courts, and then I’ll have to appeal it. But then what he’s done is he’s slowed down the momentum, and it gives crooked people more time to cover up the books,
Trump said from the Oval Office on Tuesday
This Court should not allow lower courts to seize executive power by dictating to the President how long he must continue employing an agency head against his will,
the filing statesHe who saves his Country does not violate any Law,
the president wrote on Truth Social and XI can and am continuing with my work as Special Counsel, and I am grateful for the opportunity to do so,
Dellinger said in a statement following the rulingWe're going to restore, ultimately, through this process, the federal government to the original intent of the Founders. And that's what has the big government, socialist liberals, and Democrat Party apoplectic because they're afraid of what the final result of this is going to be,
he added with a smile