Summary

Elon Musk called for the impeachment of federal judges after courts blocked his DOGE from laying off probationary (new) federal workers.

Judges ordered agencies to reinstate tens of thousands of employees, ruling the firings unlawful. Musk claimed judicial resistance undermines democracy.

Musk has attacked judges on social media, calling them “corrupt” and “evil,” raising concerns among federal judges about their safety.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Musk has no legal right to call for such. Just blowing hot air if it were any other legislature

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Elon Musk is mad there’s a process in place to protect workers from being fired without reason? Color me shocked.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    What happened to the musk hate from the right? They’re suddenly taking his word as gospel and sending death threats to Judges.

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      7 days ago

      He kissed Trump’s ring to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Then he came out explicitly endorsing Trump. Plus, he’s a neo-Nazi shit bag.

      That’s what happened

    • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      The problem is that they’re not trying to hide it. They openly say this is how it’s going to work now.

      Look at Columbia. They refused to cooperate. Then they got 400 million yanked out from under them. And then they fell right in line.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 days ago

        Yep. Back to the Political Spoils system. We are in for a world of hurt if this doesn’t get stopped soon.

  • RubixRube@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    The power of the purse is in the hands of the democratically elected congress.

    So to get on the same page as Elon, a government agency, formed through an executive order, being run by an unelected official, thinks that they have the power to to eliminate programs, jobs and funding from congressionally approved organizations. Got it.

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    7 days ago

    Stop listening to an African Nazi who has no power over the country.

    For the strongest country in the world, Americas fucking weak.

    Send Musk back to Africa. Fuck sakes America.

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    7 days ago

    Small note for the summary: “probationary” in terms of government employees does not necessarily mean new, it means new in that role.

    So, someone who has been working for the government for 20 years and was just promoted to a senior position is a probationary employee.

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      7 days ago

      I have a bunch of coworkers who were contractors in a position for about a decade, then transitioned over to GS employees doing the same job. They were classified as probationary due to being “new” to their positions and were put on notice.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 days ago

      Yeah this makes it just so much fucking dumber. That they would try to claim that it’s due to poor performance, when they are literally firing people who just got promoted.