A strategy for the empowerment of the purge is revealed.

[Rogue AI]

Trump Argues That Courts Cannot Block Musk’s Team From Treasury Systems​

Judge Engelmayer said in an emergency order that the officials’ access heightened the risk of leaks and of the systems becoming more vulnerable than before to hacking. He set a hearing in the case for Friday.

Federal lawyers defending Mr. Trump — as well as the Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and the Treasury Department — called the order “markedly overboard” and said the court should dismiss the injunction, or at least modify his order.

They argued that the order violated the Constitution by ignoring the separation of powers and severing the executive branch’s right to appoint its own employees. The restriction, they wrote, “draws an impermissible and anti-constitutional distinction” between civil servants and political appointees working in the Treasury Department.

The filing followed warning shots over the weekend. Vice President JD Vance declared that the courts and judges aren’t allowed “to control the executive’s legitimate power,” although American courts have long engaged in the practice of judicial review.

Trump Argues That Courts Cannot Block Elon Musk’s DOGE Team From Treasury Systems

The president’s lawyers argued that the distinction between civil servants and political appointees was unworkable and unconstitutional. A hearing is set for Friday.

www.nytimes.com

I am far from the first person to note virtually everything Don is doing with respect to government employees is in pursuit of expanding executive power. Not just by claiming the authority to break current law but by installing obedient lackeys to take the place of non-partisan civil servants.

Executive power is defined by Article II. Trump is simply the first president in generations to abide by such powers.

 

[martybegan]

The judge adjudicates, not the President.

The President is the only person in the executive branch with any Constitutional powers.

All other responsibility flows from him as HE delegates.

 

[kyzr]

Actually the appeals court just overturned the judge's "un-pause". So Trump's pause is now in effect.

At least that's what they said on TV

 

[Rawley]

I am far from the first person to note virtually everything Don is doing with respect to government employees is in pursuit of expanding executive power

Pssst - the Treasury Department is part of the Executive branch.

 

[OKTexas]

How he goes about it does matter.

In what way?

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[Rogue AI]

Pssst - the Treasury Department is part of the Executive branch.

Many liberal loons seem to think there are imaginary 'independent' agencies that apparently answer to no one. Reality is hitting these folks pretty hard.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The President is the only person in the executive branch with any Constitutional powers.

All other responsibility flows from him as HE delegates.

In the executive branch only, and the judges can adjudicate to the extent he can.

 

[martybegan]

In the executive branch only, and the judges can adjudicate to the extent he can.

Everything Trump has been doing involves the executive branch only.

They can try, but I have a feeling the SC is going to smack down 90% of these reaches, and do it 9-0.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Many liberal loons seem to think there are imaginary 'independent' agencies that apparently answer to no one. Reality is hitting these folks pretty hard.

No one said any such thing.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Everything Trump has been doing involves the executive branch only.

They can try, but I have a feeling the SC is going to smack down 90% of these reaches, and do it 9-0.

You will be very unhappy if you are still around when they rule.

 

[martybegan]

You will be very unhappy if you are still around when they rule.

These are such obvious over-reaches that only hacks like you can't or won't see it.

I go with the latter, this is willful ignorance on your part.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

These are such obvious over-reaches that only hacks like you can't or won't see it.

I go with the latter, this is willful ignorance on your part.

Gaslighting again.

 

[martybegan]

Gaslighting again.

Non-response from slow-horsebrain as usual.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Non-response from slow-horsebrain as usual.

My appropriate response to the dimwitted.

 

[martybegan]

My appropriate response to the dimwitted.

Go play in traffic, poseur.

 

[gtopa1]

He's trying to expand the power of the presidency. These shouldn't be difficult concepts to grasp.

No; he is trying to make the bureaucracy EFFICIENT, so take your suppository like a X, berg!!!

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

My appropriate response to the dimwitted.

Greg

 

[Rogue AI]

No one said any such thing.

Many of your liberal cohorts imply such. Reality has been a rude awakening for some of them. Perhaps you are not one of them.

 

[cnm]

We pay 100 permanent bureaucrats to do work that could be accomplished with 20 employees.

DRAIN THE SWAMP.

The lobbyists would never get a fair shot at only twenty.

 

[cnm]

He's trying to expand the power of the presidency. These shouldn't be difficult concepts to grasp.

It was Upton Sinclair, I think, who said words to the effect that it was difficult to get a man to understand something when the man's salary depended on him not understanding it.

I guess the same thing applies to invested ego as applies to salary.