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Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public​


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Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public

A worker resigned in protest rather than giving Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notiy system, including phone numbers," 404 Media has learned.
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"...A worker at the General Services Administration told colleagues in a Slack message Tuesday that they have resigned in protest after Elon Musk ally Thomas Shedd requested “admin/root access to all components of the Notify.gov system,” which is a government system used to send mass text messages to the public that contains information the worker said is highly sensitive and would give Shedd unilateral, private access to the personal data of members of the public.

Shedd is a former Tesla engineer who now runs Technology Transformation Services (TTS), a group of coders and software engineers within the GSA, who is closely allied with Elon Musk and DOGE. Notify.gov contains not just the phone numbers of everyday people but also information about whether they participate in government programs such as Medicaid, which is based on a person's financial situation. In recent days, Musk has become obsessed with the idea of "fraud" in Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, and in identifying those he suspects are committing fraud...."
 

MAGA takes aim at the Republican hawks​


Trump loyalists are sending a message to the GOP’s foreign policy traditionalists.


"Top allies of President Donald Trump are in an escalating clash with the Republican Party’s once-powerful defense hawks, viewing them as key obstacles standing in the way of a thorough remaking of U.S. foreign policy that would realign the world order with Trump’s America First vision.

Vice President JD Vance and several administration officials who are close to Donald Trump Jr. have been central to the effort to sideline those with traditional conservative foreign policy views, which has accelerated over the past week.

Their targets have included a well-known Trump ally, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who has raised concerns about the nominee for a top Defense Department post, and the administration’s own special envoy on the Russia-Ukraine war, former Gen. Keith Kellogg, who is being undermined in Washington as he meets this week with top Ukrainian officials in Kyiv.

Given their past lives as Russia hawks, Trump’s own secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and national security adviser, Michael Waltz, are under intense internal scrutiny inside a White House where deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and Sergio Gor, who oversees personnel decisions, have shown little tolerance for anyone who diverges from the MAGA mindset.

Underpinning all of it is Trump’s foreign policy mindset that elevates his personal relationships with leaders of rival superpowers, and the use of American threats to push allies and adversaries to buckle to American power, over the traditional alliances based on long-term cooperation and democratic governance. That has emboldened Vance and others to send a clear message to the world that Republican foreign policy as they have known it is dead — and they’re not sorry about it.

... Rubio “knows the knives are out for him,” one of the people close to the secretary said. “He knows that [Grenell] is gunning for his job and will go to Trump and demand he fires Marco the first time he says anything that contradicts the boss.” ..."
 
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Justice Department is dropping its immigration\u00a0case\u00a0against SpaceX

Government lawyers asked a Texas judge to end a pause in proceedings so they could file a notice of dismissal of the case.
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Justice Department is dropping its immigration case against SpaceX​


"The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said it would drop a case accusing Elon Musk's space technology company SpaceX of refusing to hire certain immigrants.

The Justice Department last month signaled it could back away from the case, brought during Democratic President Joe Biden's term.

Musk, a top adviser to Republican President Donald Trump, is leading a commission tasked with identifying waste in the federal government.

In a Thursday court filing in Brownsville, Texas, government lawyers asked a judge to end a pause in proceedings so they could file a notice of dismissal of the case. The Justice Department said it would dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning it could not be brought again.

...The Justice Department in August 2023 filed an administrative complaint alleging SpaceX from 2018 to 2022 routinely discouraged asylum recipients and refugees from applying for jobs and refused to consider them.

At the time, the department said SpaceX wrote in job postings and public statements that it could only hire U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents because of U.S. export control laws. The department said export control laws did not impose such restrictions. ..."
 
Step one — argue Unitary Executive power to remove Administrative Law Judges:

 
nycfan said:
Step one — argue Unitary Executive power to remove Administrative Law Judges:

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“… Administrative law judges are members of the executive branch who preside over hearings regarding administrative disputes between federal agencies and affected parties. They serve both the judge and jury in these proceedings — having the authority to conduct hearings, issue subpoenas, review findings and administer rulings.

The judges adjudicate issues in numerous federal agencies, like complaints of unfair labor practices filedwith the National Labor Relations Board, violations of labor laws — like minimum wage requirements — brought to the Department of Labor and disputes over someone’s eligibility for retirement or disability benefits under the Social Security Administration.

Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris, one of the top attorneys in the Justice Department, sent a letter to the Senate saying the DOJ “has concluded that the multiple layers of removal restrictions for administrative law judges…violate the U.S. Constitution” and “will no longer defend them in court.”

A federal law states these judges can be removed “only with good cause,” and that’s determined by the U.S. Merits Systems Protection Board (MSPB), which protects federal employees from unfair personnel practices.

… Essentially, this makes it harder for the president to impact this process, which allows these judges to be independent and not be concerned with the whims of partisan politics when a new president enters office.

Harris said this violates the U.S. Constitution’s separation of powers principles.

She referenced a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision that stated “multilayer protection from removal” to executive officers violates Article II of the Constitution, which vests executive power in the president. That case involved the Public Company Oversight Board, which is under the supervision of the Securities and Exchanges Commission.

In a statement Thursday, DOJ Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle announced the Justice Department’s new stance on these protections, saying the “nelected and constitutionally unaccountable [administrative law judges] have exercised immense power for far too long.” …”
 
UNCRx85 said:


Just absolutely cringe stuff. What a sad, small, man-baby he is. An embarrassment to self-respecting, reality-occupying Americans.

Good on Janet Mills, too, for saying this literally to his saggy, orange, spay-tanned, foundation-caked face.
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It is going to be a real easy one in court, but not the way he thinks. It would take about 10 minutes to enter the injunction.
 
UNCRx85 said:


Just absolutely cringe stuff. What a sad, small, man-baby he is. An embarrassment to self-respecting, reality-occupying Americans.

Good on Janet Mills, too, for saying this literally to his saggy, orange, spay-tanned, foundation-caked face.
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Wow. 😮 He is becoming more of a thin-skinned bully by the minute.

Kudos to the governor — “see you in court”
 
The unitary executive theory is possibly the most destructive and idiotic legal theory in modern history of our country. I used to think it was originalism, but they have cranked the unitary executive shit so much. It's absolutely ridiculous. Those fuckers can't even define executive power but are SO SURE that the president has it all.
 
superrific said:
It is going to be a real easy one in court, but not the way he thinks. It would take about 10 minutes to enter the injunction.
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Now there's a man who understands the princples of federalism and the president not being a dictator who can just rule by whim! He becomes more authoritarian and thin-skinned and determined to quash all criticism and opposition by the day. But our resident bosiders and Trumpers insist that this is all perfectly normal and nothing to be concerned about. Sure, sure.
 
aGDevil2k said:
I think he's losing it already...already getting into fake polls, talking election stuff, he knows he's losing the message
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Yep. Inflation up, interests rates remaining high, eggs through the roof!!!!, consumer confidence down, early term approval is terrible, so turned to the tried and true.
 
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