Judge rails against DOGE for 'terrorizing' U.S. Institute of Peace

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Buckle up, kids. This is going to be a long one.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143421758

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Judge rails against DOGE for 'terrorizing' U.S. Institute of Peace after using 'guns and threats' to shut it down
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Source: The Independent

Wednesday 19 March 2025 17:55 EDT


A federal judge was alarmed by allegations that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency provoked a dramatic standoff this week with the U.S. Institute of Peace, culminating in what attorneys for the agency called a hostile “takeover” fueled by threats and harassment. Federal prosecutors have threatened institute officials with criminal prosecution, DOGE members warned that a private security contractor would lose government contracts, and the institute’s president was forcibly removed by several law enforcement agencies – events that attorneys with the Department of Justice have not disputed.

In a hearing in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, District Judge Beryl Howell asked Justice Department attorneys whether Donald Trump’s administration could enforce his executive order seeking to shutter the agency “without using the force of guns and threats by DOGE against American citizens.”

“I mean, this conduct of using law enforcement, threatening criminal investigations, using arms of law enforcement … probably terrorizing employees and staff at the institute, when there are so many other lawful ways to accomplish the goals … why?” she said. “Just because DOGE is in a rush?”

The institute is not a federal agency but an independent nonprofit established by Congress under President Ronald Reagan. Its headquarters in Washington, D.C., is not government property, and its personnel are not federal employees. The institute employs roughly 600 people in the United States and overseas with a congressional mandate to help resolve international conflicts.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-peace-institute-threats-judge-b2718273.html


The institute is not a federal agency but an independent nonprofit established by Congress under President Ronald Reagan. Its headquarters in Washington, D.C., is not government property, and its personnel are not federal employees.

Operative words highlighted. If the courts allow this, then they can conceivably and forcibly go into any of the "non-white focused" Smithsonian museums and forcibly shut them down. Just. Because.

What the DUmmy leaves out is, the citation in bold is from plaintiff's motion. It has no basis in law.

ustAnotherGen (34,595 posts)
8. Stitch coming

Not a Federal agency.
Not gov't employees.
Not Federal property.

I wouldn't go back into work unless I was armed. Machetes, bear spray, numchuks - you name it. Folks need to stand their ground and if DC Police were involved? Those officers need to lose their jobs.

Also - the members of Doge who were trespassers need to be arrested- today.

Irish_Dem (66,042 posts)
14. Trump's gestapo can legally break into any private residence.

And kidnap and disappear anyone on secret flights.

inca (51,765 posts)
16. I don't understand why they haven't been arrested for this particular act. It's breaking and entering.

Or, it's not B&E so there is no basis for arrest.

markodochartaigh (2,490 posts)
19. One of the goals of maga

is to govern the US like a town in the South in the 1850's. The sons of the plantation owners would not have been arrested if they vandalized a newspaper printing anti-slavery opinion pieces.

Tell that to the elderly old women who pray silently outside an abortion clinic only to have FBI tactical teams kick in their doors.

SharonAnn (13,982 posts)
46. Or to govern the US like a town in apartheid South Africa!

INFERRED: You know who is from South Africa, don't you?

You know what? My rum is setting in and it's all the same shit.

[CollectivismMustDie]

Oh, the drama.

*yawn*

[SVPete]

OhBummer! appointee, unsurprisingly.

... asked Justice Department attorneys whether Donald Trump’s administration could enforce his executive order seeking to shutter the agency “without using the force of guns and threats by DOGE against American citizens.”

That hysterical inflammatory partisan question should be grounds for a motion for recusal and for impeachment.

SharonAnn (13,982 posts)
46. Or to govern the US like a town in apartheid South Africa!

How many Post Reports would result from posting the fact that Musk moved to Canada after graduating from secondary school to avoid serving in the South African military and enforcing Apartheid?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Oh, the drama.

*yawn*

They need the drama to cover for their corruption and domestic terrorism.

[FunkyZero]

Buckle up, kids. This is going to be a long one.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143421758


What the DUmmy leaves out is, the citation in bold is from plaintiff's motion. It has no basis in law.

Or, it's not B&E so there is no basis for arrest.

Tell that to the elderly old women who pray silently outside an abortion clinic only to have FBI tactical teams kick in their doors.

INFERRED: You know who is from South Africa, don't you?

You know what? My rum is setting in and it's all the same shit.

I don't know if anyone here has ever raised hogs or not, but this reminds me of it in a sense. In a farrowing house, the hogs are confined to pretty small, individual pens so they can rest and feed the newborns. Every day or two, you have to go in each pen and gather up the yonguns and move them and the sow out for a few minutes to hose down and re-straw the floor. Step one is removing those babies from the sows tit if they are on there, and they usually are... and let me tell you, sometimes you have to put your back into it, they do NOT want to let go and when you do finally get them loose, they scream like hell the whole time.  That appears to be what is going on with all these bureaucratic orgs and all of the fat contractors. DOGE is leaning into it, trying to get them loose and they ain't havin it. They've grown so used to that food source, they think it belongs to them, and they'll bite off every finger that gets in the way. We may have to start euthanizing them to stop the infection.

[DefiantSix]

... We may have to start euthanizing them to stop the infection.

Couldn’t agree more strongly. It's not a "fun" job, but it may need to be done.

[Old n Grumpy]

The DOJ needs to send the FBI swat teams out at 3 am to bring some of these judges in for questioning. Maybe that will solve the problem.

[DefiantSix]

The DOJ needs to send the FBI swat teams out at 3 am to bring some of these judges in for questioning. Maybe that will solve the problem.

The ATF, actually.

ATF needs to make sure the judge's firearms are properly secured. At 3am. 

[SVPete]

This is what real terrorism looks like:

[Texacon]

I don't know if anyone here has ever raised hogs or not, but this reminds me of it in a sense. In a farrowing house, the hogs are confined to pretty small, individual pens so they can rest and feed the newborns. Every day or two, you have to go in each pen and gather up the yonguns and move them and the sow out for a few minutes to hose down and re-straw the floor. Step one is removing those babies from the sows tit if they are on there, and they usually are... and let me tell you, sometimes you have to put your back into it, they do NOT want to let go and when you do finally get them loose, they scream like hell the whole time.  That appears to be what is going on with all these bureaucratic orgs and all of the fat contractors. DOGE is leaning into it, trying to get them loose and they ain't havin it. They've grown so used to that food source, they think it belongs to them, and they'll bite off every finger that gets in the way. We may have to start euthanizing them to stop the infection.

Excellent analogy!  You forgot a step we used to do. Once those piglets got teeth we snapped them off to keep them from hurting the sow. And that is what the Dems do to keep the faithful on the teat.

KC

[Old n Grumpy]

This is what real terrorism looks like:

That’s really sad that some assholes could get whipped up enough to go and cause millions of dollars worth of damage. I hope they catch them and they rotten prison for over 20 years.

[SVPete]

So far, three of the terror-arsonists have been caught. Sadly, when it comes to paying for damage, they're probably bloodless turnips.