Real political courage would be for disaffected #Republican members to stay in their seats, leave the #GQP caucus and create their own caucus for the purpose of working with #Democrats to return some executive branch accountability to #Congress as the #Constitution requires.

#GOP #GOPtraitors #FuhrerTrump
@DebErupts

VoteVets | Stop Elon Musk's War On Veterans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gOksDg9BSg

'"It feels like #veterans are being personally attacked by #ElonMusk"

"I did not put my life on the line for some #tech bro billionaire from #SouthAfrica to come in here and try to destroy our country"

And our #Congress person does absolutely nothing.

Stop Elon's war on Veterans now!"

[There are also videos for specific Congress people:
https://www.youtube.com/@votevets/videos ]

I agree with Maya Sen who said, “The fact that the world’s richest man works at the behest of the executive & can buy out the #legislature is massively outside the scope of what the framers could have imagined. there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this.”

Joseph Rillotta, a senior #IRS lawyer, wrote that “no one” at the IRS had taken into account the performance of the probationary workers set to be fired. Rillotta urged that the language be struck from the draft termination letter.

If the falsehood wasn’t removed, Rillotta said he would file a report w/the #InspectorGeneral for the IRS.

DOGE Seizes Control of Independent Org Dedicated to Peace

Following a #police standoff, Elon Musk’s lackeys took over the nonprofit’s HQ in what its former leader referred to as an “illegal takeover.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/doge-seizes-control-of-us-peace-institute

"More than 40 years ago, #Congress established the #US Institute of #Peace (USIP) as an “independent, nonprofit, national institute” to “promote #international peace & the resolution of conflicts.”

#Doge just took it over."

Elon Musk’s DOGE Uses Police to Seize Independent Nonprofit

The US Institute of #Peace is not a federal agency nor located in a federal building. That didn’t stop DOGE from taking over.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192854/elon-musk-doge-police-independent-nonprofit-usip

"The #USIP, an independent #nonprofit founded by #Congress...

“What has happened here today is an illegal takeover by elements of the executive branch of a private nonprofit,” Moose told reporters."

Musk’s Role in Dismantling Aid Agency Likely Violated Constitution, Judge Finds

It appears to be the first time a federal #judge has acted to constrain Elon Musk, a top adviser to #Trump...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/us/politics/elon-musk-usaid-doge-unconstitutional.html

"Efforts by #ElonMusk & his team to permanently shutter #USAID likely violated the #Constitution “in multiple ways” & robbed #Congress of its authority to oversee the dissolution of an agency it created"

#SCOTUS ruled in 1935 to uphold a #law that allows #FTC commissioners to be fired ONLY for good #cause, such as neglecting their duties. The ruling shields a number of #independent, bipartisan multi-member agencies from direct control by the #WhiteHouse.

Asked what was next, #TomHoman said: "Another flight, another flight every day."

"We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think," he added.

With the #Republican-controlled #Congress largely backing his agenda, federal judges have often been the only constraint on #Trump, putting many actions hold while they consider their legality. In several cases, the admin has refused to comply w/judicial orders.

The flights suggest the #Trump admin may be growing more brazen in its defiance of judicial restraint. The #US #Constitution established the #judiciary as a co-#equal & #independent branch of government.

Trump has sought to *push* [illegally expand] the boundaries of #ExecutivePower since taking office in Jan, cutting spending authorized by #Congress, dismantling #FederalAgencies & firing tens of thousands of #FederalWorkers.