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Summary

Judge Tanya Chutkan, who presided over Donald Trump’s election interference case, has been assigned a major lawsuit challenging Elon Musk’s authority in the federal government.

The suit, filed by 14 states, claims Musk wields unprecedented executive power, including control over federal funds and agencies.

Chutkan, a frequent Trump critic, previously imposed a gag order on him.

While Trump and Musk have yet to comment, right-wing figures are already attacking Chutkan, signaling an upcoming political and legal battle over executive power.

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[–] SinningStromgald 90 points 4 days ago (1 children)

While seeing Judge Tanya Chutkan get this case could be a good sign. Her ruling, if negative to Trump, will probably see the end of her career. The more interesting thing will be if this gets appealed to the Supreme Court. Their ruling will determine how much power the courts have going forward to actually rein in presdients.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 days ago (1 children)

She's has a lifetime appointment.

[–] spankmonkey 84 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The president can order her to be assassinated and pardon whoever does it per SCOTUS.

[–] Placebonickname 43 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is what I’m saying man. We should resist, but it cannot be just one person, it has to be many so that Trump cannot get rid of all of us at once.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I want to see fear in that man's eyes.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I forgot that picture. I dunno how when it's pretty much my entire mood lately.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

That photo is beautiful

[–] orgrinrt 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh man, whoever’s shielding him has some tight pants on. I wouldn’t mind seeing more of them

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You don't see it in every single photo that exists of him? Because fear is literally what drives him.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Oh I see nothing behind those eyes most of the time

[–] hemmes 4 points 4 days ago

And McDonald’s is his fuel

[–] b3an 6 points 3 days ago

This. We have to stand together and resist this blatant illegal overreach by an unelected bureaucrat

[–] CharlesDarwin 52 points 4 days ago (1 children)

LOL, the pampered diaper donvict? When was his life ever "hell"?

He should be rotting away in prison, instead, he continues unbothered and unscathed and is now king of the world.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

I remember back when you would read every day a new headlin on how they really got him now. Making hell for him apparently means not kissing his feet.

[–] Snapz 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The judge didn't make life hell for trump. trump did that for himself.

Ridiculous fucking headline.

Note: This message was sent from the Gulf of Mexico

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Life hell? Do any of you feel that Trump’s life has ever been “hell?”

[–] spongebue 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He's gotten away with a lot and supposedly has a lot of money, but to be honest I really don't envy him. He seems miserable inside.

[–] cmbabul 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I actually have some sympathy for young Trump, in the same way I feel a little bad for young Kissinger because he was beaten up by Nazis. Fuck everything about who he’s become and what he's done, burn him at the stake. But from what I’ve heard about his childhood and family that was probably a really shitty way to be a kid

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah it sucks that his mom was pretty absent and his dad was basically a sociopath, but not everyone with garbage parents grows up to oversee the deaths of millions.

[–] cmbabul 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No doubt, he’s not absolved in any capacity. I just feel bad for the actual child he once was, not the man that child became

[–] MutilationWave 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I feel this way about Barron Trump every time I see him. He's barely got any chance of leading a decent, moral life. I guarantee mental health issues have already begun to manifest. For fuck's sake his dad named the kid after his alter ego, John Barron.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I comfort myself with the fact that pretty much every waking moment of his life has been hell-- he's just too dumb to realize it.

He's never accomplished or learned anything, known love or had a friend, and his family either hates him or are sycophantic extensions of his own ego. A lifetime of shitting in gold toilets will never change the fact that he's a failure that made everything and everyone he touched worse, and will be logged in history books as the puppet figurehead that more intelligent fascists used for their own purposes.

[–] Zerlyna 5 points 4 days ago

He shits in his pants now!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He (and his allies) had to take 10 years of Greta Thunberg scolding him. He’s pretty thin skinned.

[–] solrize 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think it's been 10y. I just checked and she's 22 now. She started protesting with she was 15. So more like 7y. That would have been during the 1st Trump admin I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I don’t either. It’s a quote from JD Vance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's a figure of speech. Nobody thinks she made his life actual, literal hell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] rigatti 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The person you're responding to is not actual literal Sherlock Holmes, FYI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I see what you’ve done there. ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Was going to say... a bit like saying "the one who's closest to reaching jupiter".

[–] Zerlyna 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] normalexit 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

After an onslaught of bad news it's novel to see something positive happening.

[–] stickly 6 points 4 days ago

Nothing positive is happening until it happens, we have yet to see Trump comply with a judicial ruling (let alone an emergency injunction). And it'll get argued up to the SCOTUS before he'd even theoretically stop.

Don't fall for Lucy pulling the football for the 9th year in a row. Plan and act as if he's not facing any consequences within the limits of our government, because his record shows he won't.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

It’s from an onion comic artist, “Kelly”, who makes amazing comic parodies of right-wing garbage comics like Ben Garrison

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

same vibe is all. its an old meme. we are the "sickos" who will enjoy watching this go down.

[–] pennomi 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Fellas, is it sick to enjoy the downfall of tyrannical leaders?

[–] P00ptart 6 points 4 days ago

Lmfao, we won't see that anytime soon. Itll take years at best.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

No. But I want to stick them into the Kenshi skinner machine and make Planet of the Apes taxidermy for the future Smithsonian exhibit on them.

[–] riodoro1 10 points 3 days ago

Being elected a supreme leader is apparently hell for donald trump

[–] Vinstaal0 5 points 3 days ago

Can we also sue Musk and Trump for their bullshit if we don’t live in the US? Fuckers like that are destroying more than just the US