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.

    • @[email protected]
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      02 months ago

      I guarantee you he has signed no papers. His name won’t be in anything. In a court of law you’ll have trouble proving he actually ordered anything at all. He is welding all this power completely outside of literally any accountability and Trump , Congress, and Trump’s supporters are all fine with that.

      • Suite404
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        12 months ago

        So he says, “fire these people” and they just do it? If that’s how it’s been going that’s even worse than the madness I thought it was.

  • qantravon
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    502 months 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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      92 months 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.

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      222 months 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.

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    1682 months ago

    How ironic that the guy who was never elected for anything is whining about democracy. And “corrupt”? Corrupt might as well be Elon’s middle name.

  • @[email protected]
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    152 months 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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    232 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      222 months 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

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        12 months ago

        Am i misunderstanding, or are you saying the right is trying to stop having death threats to them? Which if that is correct, I’m not sure I’m following what you are saying.

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    842 months ago

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

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      172 months ago

      We’ve been asking him to for a while but he won’t listen and he keeps giving money to the people who should be making him leave