ryper

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[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 16 points 13 hours ago

Didn't the government argue in court that Musk is just an advisor? Is Trump telling him to advise more aggressively?

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Trump is arguing that the presidential immunity the Supreme Court invented allows him to do all this, so we might not have gotten here if the constitution didn't leave room for the court to invent that. And if the 14th Amendment were clearer, Trump wouldn't have even been able to run in the last election.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 22 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (8 children)

How about going back in time to make sure the Constitution is written with less room for interpretation? You could solve DOGE, Trump, and gun rights in one go.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

DOJ is controlled by the fascists, so investigating nvidia would really only be a minor distraction from investigating and intimidating Trump's many, many enemies.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I swear nvidia heard about AMD's release plans and decided they needed to be first, regardless of supply.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago

This administration is more likely to punish the NYT for finding the "mistake" than it is to punish anyone in DOGE for being involved in it.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

But I thought misgendering someone isn't a crime on twitter?!

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Trump, his handpicked Cabinet officials, and Musk have also disregarded or openly attacked the other two co-equal branches of government, accusing judges who have moved to halt or limit the new administration's actions of being Democratic partisans.

It says Trump and his cronies have disregarded or attacked both other branches, but the article only provides examples related to the judicial branch. What have they done to the legislative branch, besides steal its power without any complaints from the Republicans in charge over there? Bypassing a complicit and complacent Congress doesn't feel like it's on the same level as ignoring court orders and threatening to impeach judges.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 61 points 6 days ago (6 children)

The offer might have gone over slightly better if the US Secretary of Defense hadn't already ruled out NATO membership and a return to Ukraine's 2014 borders.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

She didn't dismiss the case, she just refused their request to be reinstated while the case proceeds. And it was an emergency request, where the IGs not filing quickly makes it look less like an emergency.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

She declined to fast track the case like the IGs wanted. It will still be handled in due time. Trump fired the IGs without the required 30 day noticed, and if they were reinstated there'd be nothing to stop him from firing them properly, so fast tracking the case wouldn't really accomplish much.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that when we’re dealing with unprecedented attacks on democracy maybe people are slow moving at figuring out how they can legally fight back and perhaps it took them that long to put together a legal argument.

Part of the judge's issue was that the court has bigger attacks to deal with than Trump firing these guys faster than he was supposed to.

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