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Time for the Jacksonian Response?

Bob Thompson
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I thought we would soon see this, this material from a RedState article.

A federal judge issued an order Saturday that purports to not only stop the US DOGE Service, which is part of the Executive Office of the President, from accessing data on federal payments, but also prohibits Treasury officials from accessing the system managed by that agency. Buying into a tenuous — one might say bull**** — claim of "irreparable harm," a leftist Obama appointee serving in the Southern District of New York blocked access to Treasury systems and demanded Trump's audit team "immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems, if any.”

Is there any supervision at all of the federal court system?

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  • Bob Thompson@BobThompson

    Sounds like the court order interferes with the President's Constitutional authority.

    What standing does the NY AG have in this matter. Is she going to suffer "irreparable harm"? Maybe! Let's hope so!

  • Hoyacon@Hoyacon
    Bob Thompson (View Post):
    Is there any supervision at all of the federal court system?

    As you’ve probably figured, no. Unfortunately, one of the skillsets in the “practice of law” is forum shopping for just the right District Court judge.

    However, upon reading this, I did wonder what the conservative reaction to some of this data mining would be had Biden done it.

  • Hoyacon@Hoyacon
    ReplyingtoBob Thompson

    Hoyacon (View Comment):

    However, upon reading this, I did wonder what the conservative reaction to some of this data mining would be had Biden done it.

    Bob Thompson (View Comment):

    Is there any data accumulated within the Executive Branch that is not accessible to the President?

    That’s one way to phrase it, and I do not know the answer but would say “no.”The other way to look at it would be to ask if there is any data that should not be be accessed by the President as a matter of principle. Tax returns?

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