For days the public has been awaiting the results of the inevitable political blowback and the concurrent court orders halting DOGE’s latest radical changes in their tracks. This column and its readers have been primarily focused on the attempt to terminate federal employees by email but the same line of thinking works across the board touching on all DOGE findings and “orders.” Any administration that proposes sweeping, and especially fast-paced changes faces the same consequences. Please ask President Obama – who took it in the teeth 9-0 at the SCOTUS. The Trump administration had to contemplate this coming. It is just as obvious that the current administration, led by the reckless Elon Musk, did know that the court orders were inevitable and thus floated the idea of ignoring them altogether. Now, Musk is furiously tweeting about the need to impeach judges for doing their job. The judges won’t be impeached but the real danger is that the calls for impeachment will supplement an executive decision to simply ignore them.

Musk has been on a rampage. The call to impeach judges is damaging on many levels starting with the fact that if a district judge gets the law wrong, the Constitutional step is to simply appeal – that will do it. Ask that the appeal be expedited if it is something that must be done in a hurry – they have ways and have shown the willingness to cooperate. The fear is obviously that the judges don’t have it wrong so much as the administration simply doesn’t like it. Check out Musk’s night:

At no point has the United States aspired to be like El Salvador. Unlike the violence-ridden Central American state, the U.S. has respected court orders and the Constitutional process for centuries. It is strange that a team that continues to tell us that they want to make the U.S. great – again – it would seem obvious that compliance with court orders is the means to the end. From Brown v. Board of Education, to the latest ruling in Dobbs, whether the public and government loves it or hates it, the changes are accepted as “made” until they are either accepted for good or changed by amendment or law. That is American to the core, when we were great or not so great. It is the way.

Actually, we do. Judges are here to ensure that the Constitution is followed. If a president, any president, can do whatever they want without fear of court-ordered injunctions, we don’t have democracy. That is the very definition of tyranny. Furthermore, there are instances where we expect judges to block pure “democracy.” If the United States Congress passed a law, signed by a Democratic president, one that banned all semi-automatic weapons, or banned taking handguns out of the home, the conservatives would immediately be asking a court to reinstall their second Amendment rights. Courts have been described as required to protect individuals from “the tyranny of the majority” in ensuring that individual rights are protected. That’s just how it goes.

True. No argument on that. Corrupt judges should be removed. But ruling against the administration is not corruption. They are doing their jobs. The moment one takes money or expresses a political opinion on why they’re ruling as such, then remove them for corruption.

Please see above. Ruling against an administration that is stomping on some citizens’ rights is not the definition of tyranny. The judges follow law that protect citizens from tyranny.

Keep in mind that Musk hasn’t appealed these rulings. Additionally, he isn’t acting pursuant to a law passed by Congress. That is how the United States does things. Go through Congress, Elon – then see what the judges do. What’s that? You can’t go through Congress because they might not pass the law you want? At that point, who is the one opposing democracy? Who insists on imposing tyranny? File your appeal. Go to Capitol Hill. Then get back to us.

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  2. How exactly did Musk become an American citizen if he doesn’t seem to understand the very basics of American civics? My understanding is that people born outside the US, if they wish to become American citizens, MUST pass a test that deals with the basics of how the US government works along with basics of American history and American geography.

    So, I’m wondering if the Muskrat actually took such a test or if he just paid umpteen millions of dollars to BUY his American citizenship?

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    • I have wondered the same. Did tRump have this in the works for his bro Elon before he took office? Was he a citizen before? I would think his actions count as terroristic threats. But no body at the FBI would arrest him now. How about the Washington DC Police Department?? Wouldn’t that be a hoot?

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    • Well, muskrat has no qualms about lying wildly as do virtually all Republicans in government today. I mean, look at the company he keeps. Probably a combination of some scratch crossing a palm or two and lies is the answer. Then again, it seems clear that something happens to the principles, the moral compass, of most people when they acquire great wealth. That’s contingent upon whether they ever had a working compass in the first place I guess.

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  3. Muskrat, nor Cheeto, understand the process. It may not be a democracy at Tesla or whatever doomed business Cheeto has a hand in, but this is our country, not yours and this is the way. I do find it rich that this Nazi fanboy is crying so loudly about corrupt judges simply doing their jobs while completely ignoring the elephant(s) in the room over at the SCOTUS and one particularly partisan one down Texas way.

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