Elon Musk has just announced USAID’s DC office building is now being occupied by Customs and Border

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1887973323365376020

[Wingnut]

Ferris Bueller was right.  'Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.'

Shit is moving at warp speed.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1887972336847962314

[libertybele]

Woah!  Most excellent! 

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1887960632789434706

[berdie]

Ferris Bueller was right.  'Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.'

Shit is moving at warp speed.

Moving far too fast for my tiny brain to keep up with it. I can only imagine how the tiny brains of the Dems feel.

[libertybele]

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1887960632789434706

Only problem is a Federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from putting thousands of USAID workers on leave.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/07/federal-judge-blocks-trump-administration-putting-thousands-usaid-workers-leave/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-temporary-order-blocking-trumps-dismantling-usaid/story?id=118585005

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-pause-trump-administration-effort-gut-usaids-workforce-thousands-rcna191280

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-weigh-blocking-trump-dismantling-usaid-2025-02-07/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/feb/07/trump-us-politics-live-government-workers-union-sues-usaid-latest-updates

[American Girl]

Excerpt:
In a decisive move to streamline government operations, the Trump administration, in collaboration with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has repurposed the former headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This action underscores the administration’s commitment to prioritizing national security and fiscal responsibility.



This is the perfect new tenant!

Uh, exactly! Unburdened by what has been—no more USAID, no more wasted billions, no more globalist slush funds disguised as "aid." Just pure, unfiltered America First action.

https://defiantamerica.com/usaid-loses-its-office-lease-the-replacement-is-absolutely-perfect/

[GtHawk]

Moving far too fast for my tiny brain to keep up with it. I can only imagine how the tiny brains of the Dems feel.

Raskin will have to put his durag back on and crank it tight to keep his head from exploding, not that anyone would notice.

[MeganC]

Only problem is a Federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from putting thousands of USAID workers on leave.

It is high time these damned judges stopped trying to run the government.

[libertybele]

It is high time these damned judges stopped trying to run the government.

Unfortunately federal judges are appointed for life!

[MeganC]

Unfortunately federal judges are appointed for life!

That's not my concern. My concern are federal judges who think they can act in the place of Congress and the President, whoever he is.

[Kamaji]

It is high time these damned judges stopped trying to run the government.

Uh, it is the province of the courts to say what the law is, and to apply it to the facts of a case before them.  That often involves frustrating the agenda and desires of the executive.

It's known as "Checks and Balances" and the Founders intended it.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Uh, it is the province of the courts to say what the law is, and to apply it to the facts of a case before them.  That often involves frustrating the agenda and desires of the executive.

It's known as "Checks and Balances" and the Founders intended it.

 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Uh, it is the province of the courts to say what the law is, and to apply it to the facts of a case before them.  That often involves frustrating the agenda and desires of the executive.

It's known as "Checks and Balances" and the Founders intended it.

No, a judge does not decides what is law, that is the province of the Congress to make laws.
A judge is an impartial interpreter of the law.

You are raising a false flag. 
 
No law was even referenced when this outlaw judge decided to become the government.

[Kamaji]

No, a judge does not decides what is law, that is the province of the Congress to make laws.
A judge is an impartial of the law.

You are raising a false flag. 
 
No law was even referenced when this outlaw judge decided to become the government.

No.  Go and read some law 101.  Start with Marbury v. Madison:  "it is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is"

[The_Reader_David]

No, a judge does not decides what is law, that is the province of the Congress to make laws.
A judge is an impartial interpreter of the law.

It is the province of Congress to legislate, but besides that the Constitution has implicit in it an acceptance of the common law, in that it references as givens all manner of concepts from the common law (as, for instance writs of habeas corpus).  What the law is is more than the statutes passed by Congress and the legislature of the several states, and includes interpretations of those and of the Constitution and of common law concepts made by the courts, in that only by interpreting law (be it statutory, Constitutional or common law) can the law be applied to any particular circumstance.   In that sense the courts decide what the law is.

The ideal of impartiality in the judiciary is that of impartiality toward the the two sides of any matter, civil or criminal, before the court.  Judges are expected to show deference (a form of partiality) toward precedent, and (for those of us who believe originalism is the soundest method of judicial interpretation) toward original intent to the extent it can be discerned, their taking an attitude of impartiality as regards to original intent versus novel legal theories put before them has been part of the problem with the American judiciary.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

This was almost guaranteed to happen and can be cleared up in the appeals process. Reminder that conservatives are a majority in the USSC (largely thanks to trump).

[MeganC]

Uh, it is the province of the courts to say what the law is

And the Executive Branch is supposed to be co-equal to the Judicial Branch and not subservient to it.

Ergo, USAID was created by an Executive Order and it then exists at the discretion of the Executive.

Any duties assigned to USAID by Congress can be executed by another agency or department.

Just like DOGE was created by EO. It can be ended by an EO. Or do you presume that 1800 federal judges should all be able to control the Legislative and Executive Branches whenever it suits them?

I find nothing in the Articles that makes the Judicial Branch superior to the other two branches.

Yes, the Judicial can decide on law.

But they don't get to issue orders to the Executive on how to manage the Executive Branch and they also don't get to tell the Congress what laws to pass or not pass.