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Musk threatens to fire federal employees who leak information during DOGE purge
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Oh, no. Executive orders, at least according to "the rules", do not supercede the law. This is all blatantly illegal in many ways.
Fat lot of good that does, though, considering the other two branches are run by corrupt yes men.
Also, I don't think there's anything saying it's temporary...?
I see people saying this a lot, but as someone unfamiliar, which orders are actually clearly violating existing law? There is the mass firings example, but when I looked it didn't seem clear which rule was actually broken.
I can't tell if you're actually serious or not. Did you even attempt to search? Frankly there's honestly too many for me to be bothered listing here. Furthermore, if you are actually asking on good faith, there have been numerous news articles posted to Lemmy directly, as well as easily available elsewhere.
That said, your whole tone almost screams "I'm just asking questions!", and I have better things to do.
Ok, I'm sorry to have upset you.
My angle here is that it's difficult to discuss this topic if there is not irrefutable proof that his actions as carried out were directly violating clearly defined legislation.
If we take the case of reclassifying civil servants, articles I read say that he can do it when "necessary" / "as good administration warrants" which seems like it could leave a lot of wiggle room for him to snake his way out of it. Following that, I don't see news on whether these people have actually been removed from their jobs or if Trump simply proclaimed something which was not acted upon.
The number of low quality rage-bait articles makes finding actual information quite difficult for me at least.
From the tone of your original post, I had thought you might be knowledgeable as to state clearly which laws he had broken, ideally something so clear it would be impossible for a lawyer not to rule against him (barring whatever the presidential immunity exempts him from).
I wish you well though, and no need to respond here if you don't want to.
Oh, give it a rest.
Want an irrefutably illegal executive order? How about the one the directly contradicts the Constitution?
But yes, go "just ask questions" somewhere else please.