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Judge who made life hell for Trump will oversee case on Elon Musk

newrepublic.com Judge Who Made Life Hell for Trump Will Oversee Case on Elon Musk

A major lawsuit against Elon Musk just got assigned to his new nightmare: Judge Tanya Chutkan.

Summary

Judge Tanya Chutkan, who presided over Donald Trump’s election interference case, has been assigned a major lawsuit challenging Elon Musk’s authority in the federal government.

The suit, filed by 14 states, claims Musk wields unprecedented executive power, including control over federal funds and agencies.

Chutkan, a frequent Trump critic, previously imposed a gag order on him.

While Trump and Musk have yet to comment, right-wing figures are already attacking Chutkan, signaling an upcoming political and legal battle over executive power.

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Being elected a supreme leader is apparently hell for donald trump

LOL, the pampered diaper donvict? When was his life ever "hell"?
He should be rotting away in prison, instead, he continues unbothered and unscathed and is now king of the world.
- I remember back when you would read every day a new headlin on how they really got him now. Making hell for him apparently means not kissing his feet.

While seeing Judge Tanya Chutkan get this case could be a good sign. Her ruling, if negative to Trump, will probably see the end of her career. The more interesting thing will be if this gets appealed to the Supreme Court. Their ruling will determine how much power the courts have going forward to actually rein in presdients.
- She's has a lifetime appointment.
  
  The president can order her to be assassinated and pardon whoever does it per SCOTUS.

Life hell? Do any of you feel that Trump’s life has ever been “hell?”
- He (and his allies) had to take 10 years of Greta Thunberg scolding him. He’s pretty thin skinned.
- He's gotten away with a lot and supposedly has a lot of money, but to be honest I really don't envy him. He seems miserable inside.
  
  I actually have some sympathy for young Trump, in the same way I feel a little bad for young Kissinger because he was beaten up by Nazis. Fuck everything about who he’s become and what he's done, burn him at the stake. But from what I’ve heard about his childhood and family that was probably a really shitty way to be a kid
- I comfort myself with the fact that pretty much every waking moment of his life has been hell-- he's just too dumb to realize it.
  He's never accomplished or learned anything, known love or had a friend, and his family either hates him or are sycophantic extensions of his own ego. A lifetime of shitting in gold toilets will never change the fact that he's a failure that made everything and everyone he touched worse, and will be logged in history books as the puppet figurehead that more intelligent fascists used for their own purposes.
  
  He shits in his pants now!
- It's a figure of speech. Nobody thinks she made his life actual, literal hell.
  
  No shit Sherlock
- Was going to say... a bit like saying "the one who's closest to reaching jupiter".

<rubbing hands with delight>
- After an onslaught of bad news it's novel to see something positive happening.
  
  Nothing positive is happening until it happens, we have yet to see Trump comply with a judicial ruling (let alone an emergency injunction). And it'll get argued up to the SCOTUS before he'd even theoretically stop.
  Don't fall for Lucy pulling the football for the 9th year in a row. Plan and act as if he's not facing any consequences within the limits of our government, because his record shows he won't.
- You dropped this:
  
  Please elucidate

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