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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.

      • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        House dems aren’t as much. The censure vote is stupid, sure, but censure is just paper with no teeth. House spending votes do matter and all House Dems minus 1 all voted against the bill Schumer wants to get through. They are fucking pissed at Schumer right now. They’re actively pressuring him (and publicly so) and starting primary efforts. State AGs are also pressuring Schumer not to go through with this

        Complete meltdown. Complete and utter meltdown on all text chains," said the member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to offer sensitive details of members’ internal conversations.

        A senior House Democrat said “people are furious” and that some rank-and-file members have floated the idea of angrily marching onto the Senate floor in protest.

        Others are talking openly about supporting primary challenges to senators who vote for the GOP spending bill

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        “People are PISSED,” one House Democrat told Axios in a text message.

        Several members — including moderates — have begun voicing support for a primary challenge to Schumer, floating Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) as possible candidates, three House Democrats said.

        One lawmaker even vowed at the House Democratic retreat to “write a check tonight” supporting Ocasio-Cortez, said the senior House Democrat

        Another Democrat told Axios the ideation has gone a step further: “There is definitely a primary recruitment effort happening right now … not just Schumer, but for everyone who votes no.”

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        Said one member: “Folks are still working the phones tonight with their senators. We have not given up.”

        https://www.axios.com/2025/03/14/house-democrats-angry-chuck-schumer-shutdown

        If they do actually try and start impeachment against a judge, do keep the pressure on the senate to vote no, but don’t preemptively doom about it. It just makes people defeatest and stop fighting

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            The democratic party has gone the way of many hit TV shows. They’re kept alive way past the point where they should have been taken out to pasture, but they just keep pumping out the same formulaic bullshit.

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          The censure vote is stupid, sure, but censure is just paper with no teeth.

          The fact that the supplication was performative just makes it all the more craven.