As some day it may happen that a victim must be found
The word has gone forth that “corrupt judges” be impeached. “Corrupt” is unofficially defined among MAGA drones as any federal magistrate who impedes Musk-Trump’s rapid unscheduled disassembly (RUD) of the U.S. government.
Kase Wickman outlines for Vanity Fair the precipitating event behind Rep. Mike Lee’s outburst on Tuesday. It seems Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly believes this whole “DOGE” thing may be unconstitutional:
“Based on the limited record I have before me, I have some concerns about the constitutionality of U.S.D.S.’s structure and operations,” Kollar-Kotelly said Monday in a Washington Federal District Court hearing, invoking the initials of DOGE’s rarely-used government name, the U.S. DOGE Service and sidestepping the group’s legendarily dumbass meme-inspired acronym. Leaders of government agencies—which, given the power and access that DOGE has, it would appear to be—must be nominated by the president and confirmed by Congress. Musk, who has gotten access to a kajillion personnel files and other sensitive information between sending his never-ending stream of jackass tweets and ghosting on (some of) the mothers of his various offspring, did not go through this process.
To put it in terms that memelords like Musk might more easily understand: much overstep. fascist wow. many illegal. what boss. lol.
Confusion reigns among federal employees about whom to heed when the unelected, possibly unconstitutional Musk sends out jerkish directives contradicted by superiors, reaffirmed by the nominal president, and then not.
On top of Kollar-Kotelly, another judge put the brakes on DOGE on Monday (Associated Press):
A judge agreed Monday to temporarily bar two federal agencies from disclosing records containing sensitive personal information to representatives of billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland, ruled that the Department of Education and the Office of Personnel Management likely violated the Privacy Act by disclosing people’s personal information to DOGE without their consent.
Boardman issued a temporary restraining order requested by attorneys for unions and groups representing current and former federal employees.
How dare she. Musk needs access to that information to feed into the program he’s building to automate the firing of government employees! Off with her head! And Kollar-Kotelly’s too!
Then there are the mass resignations plaguing the RUD (VF again):
On Tuesday, 21 DOGE employees resigned en masse, writing in an open letter addressed to Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles that they objected to being asked to “compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services.”
“We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the letter continued. “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments at the United States DOGE Service.”
In the immortal words of the Muppets, even the vegetables don’t like him.
Who installed all these women judges?
“Mr. Musk is not the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator,” Joshua Fisher of the Trump White House told U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan. But the White House has been evasive about who is.
The White House needs someone to blame for Musk’s increasing bad press and growing hostility from constituents, especially in Republican districts.
Clearly, Musk gets protected by virtue of his magnificent brain and prodigious net worth. The administration needs a fall guy. Um, make that fall gal. Ta-da!
After repeatedly refusing to identify the administrator of the new Department of Government Efficiency, the Trump administration on Tuesday pointed to Amy Gleason, a former U.S. Digital Service official, as the operation’s acting administrator.
A White House official granted anonymity to speak openly confirmed to POLITICO that Gleason — who, according to her LinkedIn, served as a digital services expert at U.S. Digital Service during Trump’s first term and most recently worked as chief product officer at Nashville health care firm Russell Street Ventures — is helming the operation.
The White House has avoided naming the DOGE administrator for weeks. Earlier Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt dodged multiple questions on the matter, saying: “I’m not going to reveal the name of that individual from this podium.”
Ms. Gleason is about to discover the truth of Rick Wilson’s maxim, Everything Trump Touches Dies.
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