Schumer Should Have Called For A General Strike Instead Of Wimping Out

Musk, a South African neo-fascist with no regard for— and little knowledge of— American governance, was one of the first Trump insiders to start yowling about impeaching judges whose rulings he doesn’t agree with. Yesterday, addressing himself to Trump, Chief Justice John Roberts, warned that they’re treading on dangerous ground. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.” After Musk demanded he be impeached, Señor Trumpanzyy has been referring to Appellate Judge James Boasberg as a “radical left lunatic,” and has since taken up Musk’s call to impeach him. Texas neo-fascist freshman, Brandon Gill, quickly filed impeachment articles “asserting that the judge’s rulings amounted to ‘high crimes and misdemeanors.’” He immediately had a bunch of crackpot Confederate co-sponsors— Eli Crane (R-AZ), Buddy Carter (R-GA), Mike Collins (R-GA), Barry Moore (R-AL) and Andrew Clyde (R-GA).
Reporting for CBS News, Melissa Quinn wrote that another federal judge, Theodore Chuang, just got on Musk’s wrong side. Yesterday, he found that the multi-billionaire South African fascist and his operation, DOGE, “likely violated the Constitution when they unilaterally acted to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development… [In] a 68-page decision [he ruled] that DOGE and Musk likely violated the Constitution's Appointments Clause and separation of powers. He ordered Musk and task force employees to reinstate access to email, payment and other electronic systems to all current USAID employees and personal services contractors. The judge also prevented the Trump administration from taking any action relating to the shutdown of USAID, including placing employees on administrative leave, firing USAID workers, closing its buildings, bureaus or offices, and deleting the contents of its websites or collections.”
Chuang is exactly the kind of judge that sends Trump climbing the walls— brilliant and accomplished. A Pennsylvanian, he graduated Harvard summa cum laude and then from Harvard Law magna cum laude, serving as editor of the Harvard Law Review. People like Chuang have always sparked intense jealously and hatred from Trump. He was nominated to the District Court by Obama in 2014.
His ruling is the first that Musk is likely exercising enough independent authority to require him to be confirmed by the Senate under the Constitution’s Appointments Clause. “The record of his activities to date establishes that his role has been and will continue to be as the leader of DOGE, with the same duties and degree of continuity as if he was formally in that position,” rejecting the bogus Trump regime bullshit that Musk is not the DOGE administratorjust a senior adviser to Señor T with no independent authority.
Chuang wrote in his ruling that “If a president could escape Appointments Clause scrutiny by having advisors go beyond the traditional role of White House advisers who communicate the president’s priorities to agency heads and instead exercise significant authority throughout the federal government so as to bypass duly appointed officers, the Appointments Clause would be reduced to nothing more than a technical formality.” And one of our regular artists, Nancy Ohanian, created this stunning piece inspired by Thomas Jefferson: “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”

For those of us who recall Watergate and who felt a deep sense of satisfaction when Nixon was driven from office and his top aides went to prison, we live under a fundamentally different political system now. It's almost like living in a different country.
Other than federal district judges, we really don't have any institution firmly holding its ground under this assault. Congressional Dems in both houses took a brave stand back then--contrasted to Schumer now, who thinks that his exercise bike riding with GOP senators will somehow save us. The WaPo broke pathbreaking stories as a matter of routine--Jeff Bezos (thankfully) was in grade school then. The SCOTUS voted 8-0 to order Nixon to surrender his tapes then--n…