Elon Musk Gets His Most Brutal Smackdown Yet on DOGE Firings

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A federal judge has ordered the Office of Personnel Management to rescind “illegal” instructions to cull the workforce of federal agencies.

In an email sent across agencies on February 14, OPM instructed agency heads to “separate probationary employees you have not identified as mission-critical.”

U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California issued an order Thursday saying the directions were unlawful overreach by the OPM and “should be stopped, rescinded.”

“The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees within another agency,” Alsup said. “It can hire its own employees, yes. Can fire them. But it cannot order or direct some other agency to do so.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-gets-most-brutal-151727285.html

He'll just snort some more ketamine to feel better.

[Bluetus]

1. This is an important ruling, but

if Trump doesn't disregard it altogether. the memo can simply go out under Trump's signature. That would probably comply with the statutes cited in this case. However, there are other statues, most notably the prohibition against impoundment by the Executive Branch. So we need the impoundment challenge to be litigated ASAP.