The Trump-appointed U.S. attorney of Washington said the Justice Department will pursue legal action against \

Summary

The Department of Justice warned it would prosecute anyone obstructing Elon Musk’s DOGE operations after Trump named him a special government employee.

DOGE holds full access to unclassified records, software, and IT systems.

Musk and aides quickly gained access to Treasury systems holding sensitive federal employee data, and they pursued merging USAID with the State Department.

Interim Attorney Ed Martin unequivocally vowed legal action against anyone threatening DOGE workers, firmly stressing protection for Musk operations during the aggressive restructuring.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    14·
    2 days ago

    Every day that we go further, I become more convinced that the federal government is at last unsalvageable. If, somehow, we still have elections and the democrats did sweep 2028, the wounds would be so deep that it wouldn’t matter, and the democrats are too invested in the institution to not try to salvage it. I’m growing in certainty that we’re going to Balkanize. Does anyone have any good resources that detail what the lead up to and process of balkanization looks like in the modern era?

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 days ago

      I think youll have to just read up on the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. Balkanization is somewhat rare since most countries nominally follow sane or historic borders meaning when they fail the worst it usually gets is civil war. Luckily if things do start falling apart I dont any of the states will go to war all that fast since a whole lot of BS will have to be reorganized.