In a stunning and sweeping emergency injunction that has even stunned the people who demanded it, a Manhattan-based District Judge has just removed Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent from his authority over the Treasury Department; blocked any political appointee from accessing records within the Treasury Department; blocked any “special appointee” of President Trump from records within Treasury; and demanded that all information previously extracted be destroyed.
The emergency injunction was signed by District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan, {Ruling pdf Here} determined without any input from the Trump administration and applies until Friday, February 14, 2025, when U.S. District Judge Jeannette A. Vargas will hear the full arguments of the lawsuit.
The emergency ruling comes as a result of 15 (Soros installed) attorneys general from New Jersey, New York, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Vermont, all filed suit in New York seeking to block Elon Musk and DOGE from access to information that would reveal how activist groups in their states have been funded by the U.S. government. [Link to Press Release Here]
WASHINGTON – […] The lawsuit said Musk and his team could disrupt federal funding for health clinics, preschools, climate initiatives, and other programs, and that Republican President Donald Trump could use the information to further his political agenda.
DOGE’s access to the system also “poses huge cybersecurity risks that put vast amounts of funding for the States and their residents in peril,” the state attorneys general said. They sought a temporary restraining order blocking DOGE’s access.
The judge, an appointee of Democratic former President Barack Obama, said the states’ claims were “particularly strong” and warranted him acting on their request for emergency relief pending a further hearing before another judge on February 14.
“That is both because of the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information and the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to hacking,” Engelmayer wrote.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat whose office is leading the case, welcomed the ruling, saying nobody was above the law and that Americans across the country had been horrified by the DOGE team’s unfettered access to their data.
“We knew the Trump administration’s choice to give this access to unauthorized individuals was illegal, and this morning, a federal court agreed,” James said in a statement.
“Now, Americans can trust that Musk – the world’s richest man – and his friends will not have free rein over their personal information while our lawsuit proceeds.”
Engelmayer’s order bars access from being granted to Treasury Department payment and data systems by political appointees, special government employees and government employees detailed from an agency outside the Treasury Department.
The judge also directed that anyone prohibited under his order from accessing those systems to immediately destroy anything they copied or downloaded. (read more)
The order by the judge is transparent judicial activism; it will almost certainly be overturned and nullified by later rulings. However, it creates blocks and slows down the goal of the Dept of Government Efficiency and the objective of the Trump administration.
On what basis do states think they can sue the federal government to stop the federal government from auditing federal spending? How can a judge block the executive branch from executing the functions of the executive branch? This Lawfare activism is ridiculous.
Within the ruling:
…”restrained from granting access to any Treasury Department payment record, payment systems, or any other data systems maintained by the Treasury Department containing personally identifiable information and/or confidential financial information of payees, other than to civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties within the Bureau of Fiscal Services who have passed all background checks and security clearances and taken all information security training called for in federal statutes and Treasury Department regulations.” {source}
So, the unelected bureaucracy is in charge and not the Secretary of the Treasury?
This ruling is absolutely insane!
How on Earth are we supposed to stop fraud and waste of taxpayer money without looking at how money is spent?
That’s literally impossible!
Something super shady is going to protect scammers. https://t.co/7Eyy9ZsN7A
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2025
Ignore it and make them make it happen. This will go on for decades at every local Communists judges’ office.
Andrew Jackson comes to mind
I’m sorry ,that I could only give it one like.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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John Marshall[Paul Engelmeyer] has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”Absolutely right! No standing. Who is going to haul the patriots out of the Treasury building if they continue their work?
I am sure the Space X computer geeks, with their industrial strength lap top computers and wifi access will be able to keep working.
Didn’t Biden ignore the SCOTUS ruling on student loans?
PedoJoe got slapped down more than once over it yet it did not stop him.
Yep! Just change the name from DOGE to EGOD and keep doing the same thing. That’s what’s worked for the Democrats over 30 years…
“Affirmative Action” becomes Diversity.
“Good cause” for a CCW becomes good moral character.
DOGE becomes EGOD!
Here! Hear!
And Obama on some oil ruling.
The judge issued a panicked ruling in response to screams of SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING rolling off Democrats throughout the land.
Judge Englemayer’s ruling is a weak one in the tradition of Jack Smith. Recall that Jack demanded that the Supreme DO SOMETHING about the scope of presidential immunity. So the Supreme Court did, just not in the way Screamin’ Jack Smith wanted.
And so here we are. Jack Smith is unemployed. PDJT not so much.
As Sundance reminds, Lawfare is about media spectacle and impact. Judge Englemayer is brandishing the Lawfare equivalent of a paper knife.
Obama and the Clinton’s are at play!
Is anyone surprised by this?
No and hopefully DOGE isn’t as well.
Enter Pam Bondi to swat this down.
Aside: where was this judge when the Communists were shutting down the entire country and forcing medical procedures on everyone?
How soon we forget….
They were in the Cabal that wanted us all D-E-A-D !!!!!!
“where was this judge when the Communists were shutting down the entire country and forcing medical procedures on everyone?”
Sitting at their laptop watching them on the dark web!
He was enjoying the fact he was exempt from the clot shots because he was a judge and was probably on a beach somewhere enjoying his USAID money.
EXACTLY RIGHT! It’s taken the DS scumbags many, many years to get this far into control of the Government.
Of course they won’t go down without a fight but I can’t wait to see the dog eat dog cannibalism that is going to take place.
They will do anything to save their own individual skins. Anything. I expect that many of the will flip and turn whistle blower or try to make a deal.
I am praying for the safety of our MAGA King and his warriors.
Something about the third monkey and its starting to rain, on them?
Praying for our POTUS.
No. I was stunned, not merely surprised.
Same.
However, here we are at Day 21, with continuous revelations of illegal misdeeds, clear as day money being skimmed, appropriated with no authority, and pocketed. Yet —-not a single arrest! Nothing but crickets in that regard.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “What’s up with that? Can anyone explain? What is Bondi waiting for?”
My neighbor keeps asking me the same questions and I have no answer…
This is a direct assault on our Constitution, it is imperative that this Judge’s ruling be ignored.
We have found the precise breaking point of the Constitution.
Activist “judges”.
It’s imperative this judge be removed from the bench.
I agree. This nonsense can’t continue, and a statement must be made. The nature of American government is separation of powers, to prevent the development of a centralized power, which will inevitably become tyrannical. The judicial branch has absolutely no constitutional right to interfere with the operation of the executive branch, which is wholly controlled by the President.
This is gross judicial overreach. In this situation, the President is obligated to protect the Office of the President and the separation of powers, and publicly defy this communist judge. President Trump must come out and publicly state that this court has extended itself into an area where it has no Constitutional jurisdiction, and because of this his administration is under no obligation to comply with the order.
I honestly wish that President Trump would do as President Reagan did, which was talking directly to the people in a national address to explain his position. There is no question that this judge’s order is unconstitutional, so the President should just explain to the nation why it’s unconstitutional. This method worked to great effect for Reagan.
Exactly what I’ve been saying.
PDJT is doing that pre-Super Bowl interview…
lolololololol 🙂 🙂 🙂
Impeach the judge. Call your congressman.
Arrest the “judge”. Call your Federal Marshals.
Judge is a state of NY judge. Good luck with that.
Then he has zero jurisdiction.
There’s a Supremacy Clause in the Constitution.
Helllooo.
Is that why they had to go to state court? Because any Federal judge would refuse to issue this ridiculous decree?
I am late to the story: this is a state judge, ordering destruction of federal records working with the Executive authority of the President?
Xxx this posted while I was researching . Just quit messing with it. Sorry.
You’re 100% correct, Alex! So, carry on, fellas! The NY communist has NO authority!
federal court
NAILED IT, BNG!
Seneca: perhaps the velvet glove approach would be better:
Tomorrow morning post 4 civil service IT job openings at Treasury and hire DOGE team members into those positions immediately. They would no longer be political appointees.
They would have to get past a “probationary” period and could be let go for any reason prior to that?
…or close down the Treasury till Friday’s “court appearance”…?
Its Manhattan…..
I wrote my governor – State AGs sued, State AGs need to fight it.
The Executive must defy this Constitutionally-criminal ruling.
“Now let him enforce it”
Will Trump order that this order be ignored? Is it time for a constitutional level clash?
I think it will go to SCOTUS very quickly.
Like this weekend.
Get Roberts out of bed and have him start earning his damn paycheck.
Robert’s has been found out for a long time. Vengeance is mine says the Lord. God has got this.
He can’t do that or it will lead to the Dems calling for another impeachment.
At this point there’s zero political will behind the Dems. Impeachment is political and what they want is deeply unpopular.
So? They’re in the minority. “Elections have consequences.”
Well, the young coding techs are ballz, let Roberts grow a set
No. The DOJ will. If it’s so important then wake the fat ass Federal Judge up to hear the case tomorrow morning.
The State of NY has no standing is how it should go. Plenty of precedent for that!
As Stephen Miller said…
“Do you think they were going to just toss you the keys to the United States Government and leave?”
Or their plans for Global Domination and total human submission?
This. Is. War.
✊️✊️✊️
“Fight! Fight! Fight!”
It has been war for a very long time, our entire lives.
So much for the separation of powers. Attempted judicial coup should be met with military force
No. Arrest the judge for obstruction of justice and simultaneously announce that DOGE has uncovered evidence of massive federal crimes including money laundering, racketeering, etc.
The President is a co-equal branch of government. If the judge wants to try and use his phony baloney power, the President should use his ACTUAL power in return.
If anyone was gonna get arrested it would have happened already. It’s a nice dream but not very realistic
https://x.com/BigMKilo/status/1888341722348036387
Nice meme! Can you bring up the post? I don’t know how. Praise God!!! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Yeah, what’s the Judicial Branch doing — interfering with the Executive Branch running Executive-Branch agencies?
I ask you, now …
How utterly Terrified is the DS right now?
What does this tell us about the magnitude of their crimes?
All this Maxine waters screaming is a reaction to fear……I worship a God who walks on water. Maxine doesnt matter in this bigger picture. Only my God and Lord and Savior have my attention as it should everyone…..pray friends without ceasing.
I have never seen such a display of ignorance as Mad Maxine and her posse yesterday.
Just what exactly is in that “Treasury” info???
Asking for a friend….
This is well beyond the pale. This should be absolutely ignored by Trump. This is a direct assault on the executive branch.
And thus it starts.
Attorneys and magistrates here: what realistically would happen next if President Trump ignored this Lawfare, citing the Supreme Courts affirming Plenary Power? Who would enforce such a Lawfare sham?
That’s what the impeachment process is for. And there are a lot of Republicans in the House and Senate who are sweating bullets, and want Trump gone.
Impeachment based on what?
The Supreme Court affirmed Plenary Power. Further acknowledging that the president IS the Executive branch. The Treasury dept is subordinate only to him.
While your claims are correct, SCOTUS didn’t affirm plenary power trumps judicial rulings, even bad, politically motivated, activist decisions.
Worst thing PDJT could do is violate a court ruling. Demoncrats would immediately move to impeach. Whether successful or not, we nor PDJT needs the aggravation and hamstringing of his deconstruction of DS.
Thanks!
Wingnut Dem congressman Al Green already proposed articles of impeachment, last week!
The Democrats will attempt to impeach, regardless of what Trump does or doesn’t do. Dems will impeach Trump simply because he is Trump and because they couldn’t get him last time in two attempts.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/02/05/congress/green-moves-to-impeach-trump-again-00202601
It is best to get a SCOTUS ruling (which is a slam dunk)
This is the other reason they might have chose state instead of federal courts. Slower to SCOTUS, potentially.
The very last thing they want is a SCOTUS ruling affirming plenary power as set out in US v. Trump straight on the facts.
Ultimately, this is a stalling for time.
Time to do . . . what exactly?
By now they know Team Trump has it all, and knows it all.
So . . . stalling in advance of Operation Chaos?
Thanks!
Agree, need SC ruling that all Presidential ( admin responsibility) challenges are heard ( introduced )ONLY before Supreme Court.
Maybe by June? s/
Well, the first thought that came into my mind upon reading the title of this post by Sundance was:
President Trump needs to put trustworthy guards at every entry point of every one of the federal buildings involved, now and in the future with Dodge. Any access into the system, whether present or remote, needs to be locked down as well!
Remember Hillary erasing all subpoenaed information from her servers, and there was a lot of busting up cell phones with a hammer going on as well.
Lawsuits are efiled.
Is Judge Engelmayer afraid of what DOGE might learn about him???
The judge, an appointee of Democratic former President Barack Obama, said the states’ claims were “particularly strong” and warranted him acting on their request for emergency relief pending a further hearing before another judge on February 14 …
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-temporarily-blocks-musks-doge-accessing-payment-systems-2025-02-08/
This “judge” is only following orders from the Deep State.
Of course……..that’s the reason for all of this. Every. Single. One. Of these loudmouths is on the take. All of them. You cannot worship God and money. So says the Lord.
Judge is likely trying to give his fellow Marxists more time to destroy evidence, bleach-bit their data, shred documents, move stuff onto encrypted storage and then “forget” the passwords, etc.
Treasury needs to IMMEDIATELY lock-down access by ALL personnel for any reason. SHUT THE WHOLE THING DOWN. STOP ALL PAYMENTS ON ALL PROGRAMS and ALL PERSONNEL. Go full nuclear-option to be sure data is not corrupted or deleted. Freeze everything in place.
If the judge wants to block DOGE from getting access, Treasury needs to block Everyone from getting access.
That is the right response, not a violation of the judicial order, an immediate escalation into full Executive Branch shut-down. If some random Fed District Judge thinks he is The Executive Branch instead of the duly elected President and duly Senate-confirmed Secretary of the Treasury, then demonstrate that the Executive must execute his duties without judicial meddling.
Watch them sweat buckets. Listen to the screeching. Pressure SCOTUS to issue an emergency overturn TODAY.
I would go further with this. After all, if they’re doing this with the treasury, then they will go in and delete everything they can get their hands on regarding any part of the federal government. Every single federal building in Washington DC needs to have trustworthy guards for all physical entrance and all remote entrance.
This is the creature right here. Why do they always have the most punchable faces?
Backpfeifengesicht !!!
Genau!!
I’ll always remember a line from Grumpy Old Men where Walter Matthau was taunting Jack Lemmon, “Yeah, I went to college. A little school you may have heard of, called F.U.”
LOL, good movie.
Musk should take all the material from his crew’s work and give it to the President, who should put it all on the Resolute desk, and say,
“OK, the information is now secure.”
Molon labe, judge.
Don’t FU—ing acknowledge the ruling!!!
The left never does. Just keep going!!
They can let it be done politely looking at the corruption and cleaning it up. We are are being nice about this.
OR………..
We can do this the hard way.
Nice? The devil doesn’t understand nice
Col. John “Hannibal” Smith: Now, we can do this the hard way, or the easy way. In about a minute I and my three friends are gonna unleash on you your worst nightmare. You’re gonna wish the earth opened up underneath your feet and swallowed you whole.
Mobster Tommy Tillis: What’s the easy way?
Col. John “Hannibal” Smith: Oh, that was the easy way.
The President should immediate furlough all those civil servants. After all, they work for him.
Did he order the Air Force to bomb Moscow while he was at it?
President Trump should show up at the doorstep and make the “civil servants” give the data to him themselves. Bring the “press”. He could ask questions. Make a spectacle of it!
72 hour rule applies.
Will need more popcorn, this should get interesting
“The emergency ruling comes as a result of 15 (Soros installed) attorneys general”
Would those be the attorneys general who received campaign funding through USAID?
Yeah, I thought so.
The foxes are suing the farmer trying to eject them from the henhouse.
How many of those “attorneys general” were elected?
🙂
This is the battle.
Illegitimate ruling in content and scope.
Do not comply.
The Trump Administration should completely ignore compliance with this ruling.
And then AG Bondi needs to immediately petition SCOTUS to step in and disqualify this judge and this ruling as transparently unconstitutional.
She needs to make a public statement that DOGE started off as an effort to make government more efficient. What DOGE discovered is evidence of widespread criminal activity. She needs to make this a criminal probe. Furthermore, Team Trump needs to also clearly state that this is now a National Security issue because USAID is engaged in illegal foreign activities and very likely illegal US-based activities such as aiding and abetting illegal immigration and money laundering money into local, state, and federal elections.
I’ve been saying this for days. This stuff needs to be shifted very fast into “criminal probe” mode. Then arrest the judge for obstruction of justice if they try to interfere in the investigation.
^THIS^
And that certainly gives President Trump good reason to stop payments where crime and fraud are found.
Ignore the sugar out of it. Then demand the supremes take it up immediately
Theyre using a variation of “national security” to block oversight. This time its “what about the children”…and they go judge shopping. It will fail but this is their MO.
As all of this legal nonsense gets to SCOTUS perhaps we will learn just what the Executive branch can and can’t do in terms of running the Executive branch of Government. Remember, the Legislative branch tells the Executive branch how much money can be spent, but frequently leaves it up to the Executive to decide exactly which programs are fully funded.
No. Plenary Power.
The President is The Executive.
How can it be improper or illegal for the Executive Branch to audit itself?!?
Trump need to order the Us Marshalls to guard his designees, he needs to pre-emptively pardon everyone on team Trump, and he needs to take a chainsaw to the Treasury staffers
Perhaps there are audit trails leading from the Doge’d data to various judges that could be explored?
Does not even need to be financial data, could be merely AI discovered association nexuses.
Perhaps it is time to release the Epstein files
What is the authority of this judge to make such a sweeping order?
Is this unprecedented?
Defy it.
Charlie Kirk goes on to write, “For now, the order is only for the next week, but if a court tries to make it permanent the Trump Administration should absolutely consider defying it.”
Why wait a week?! Why stop President Trump’s charge through these agencies now? Why give them time to regroup?
Hard to regroup if the Departments (*all* of them) are shut down and no one is allowed to have access to *anything*…
As treepers, We all knew this law fare and delay were coming. Nothing new really. I just smile and trust the plan. Now we will spend days with the MSM regurgitating all the usual talking points. Peace everyone. Trust in the Lord you God and Savior Jesus Christ. This is alllll for his glory.
ignore them … as Biden did over and over
pure POS tyranny…..this is communism, fascism, nazism, this judge needs to be arrested and have a swat term at his door, put him in cuffs and throw his as- in jail, pure unconstitutional BS….
Defund these states from federal money until they remove their petitions. Reverse the strategy. Make them suffer retribution from their constituents. Or just ignore this ridiculous ruling. Like JoeBama.
My guess is, by the time team Trump announces they have gotten into such & such agency’s data means team Trump long ago GOT that data and are just telling the public about it now.
I think Space Force may be the recipient of all that downloaded data or maybe one of Elon’s systems. Wouldn’t be surprised if the systems holding all our nefarious .gov information are either parked on a satellite somewhere, (think of all Musk’s rocket launches), or the jump drives containing all the information are parked on Mars.
That’s why these judge’s rulings don’t bother me. I think it’s too little too late.
^^^^^
Every black robed partisan will continue to block PT until he finally takes the gloves off and ignores them.
These communists do not respect the rule of law, they use and abuse it.
Letitia is just p!ssed off because she knows the criminal and real fraud verdicts are going to be overturned on appeal.
So a fat grease stain and an activist judge out of NYC are running the executive branch of our government. Someone wake Bondi up.
At what point will these lawless judges be defied and removed from their positions? They are radical tyrants with NO intention of upholding their oaths of office. Liars and scoundrels every one!
This is awesome! I’m dead serious. Under no conceivable reading of the Constitution is this jack wagon judge permitted to do this. This is going to backfire in ways that Lawfare is going to regret far more than their election loss last Fall. This is going to get straight to SCOTUS and SCOTUS very quickly going to strike this down in a way that essentially blocks all other Federal judges from future interference in DOGE and the criminal prosecutions that are going to follow.
Essentially, what they’re arguing is that the President is not actually the President. And a Senate-confirmed Treasury Secretary is not a Senate-confirmed Treasury Secretary unless some Podunk judge says it is okay.
We’re at the point I’ve been stating for many days now: IT IS TIME TO ANNOUNCE THE CRIMINAL PROBE. DOGE has not just uncovered “government inefficiency”. DOGE has uncovered obvious evidence of Federal crimes being committed by USAID employees, Treasury Dept. employees, CPFB employees, etc. Among these are money laundering, racketeering, influence peddling, embezzlement, etc.
Trump should simply issue an EO that as the nation’s Chief Law Enforcement Officer he has direct evidence of federal crimes having been committed. Direct the AG to launch an immediate criminal investigation. And then target not just USAID or CPFB, but the Federal Judges who are participating in obstruction of justice.
In parallel, fast track it to SCOTUS and the central theme of your brief isn’t just that this is absurdly unconstitutional, but also that it is directly interfering in a criminal investigation as well as a national security matter.
Got for it!
Bravo!
Bellisimo!
…steamroll that judge’s ruling…flatten it…pay no attention to an obviously bought and paid for verdict…this judge is proof of the old saying about such men practicing such venal corruption: “The law is an ass.” Hee-haw, juddgie-wuddgie
So can the President sign an executive order stating that AGs and judges who conduct unconstitutional lawfare actions with the intent to obstruct the plenary powers of the Presidential Branch are to be charged with treason and remanded to Gitmo for a military tribunal?
Why not?
We do not hate them enough. I’ve definitely reached a new level.
Im sorry what did i miss? If Bessent is removed who is the Sec of Treasury? thank you if you respond
Apparently this judge thinks he is.
I’m good with this.
Shltlib Judges are WAY out of control.
Let’s confront this NOW.
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Where is Pam Bondi ?
Hopefully working hard on a slam dunk refutation of this patently unconstitutional judicial edict.
Sharpening her knives?
🙂
Another giant Squirrel (distraction) to draw attention away from the guilty ones who are being exposed. They are SO desperate as the evidence comes to light.
Maybe a distraction, but it’s impeding Trump’s forward movement. I’d say that’s not a distraction.
No. Activist judges is the main play the swamp has left in their arsenal (that assumes Rs stay strong and approve the cabinet appointments).
Yes, an impediment, but should have been expected and should be parried by the PDJT team.
It’s a panicked move designed to stop DOGE from seeing how far down the rabbit hole goes. But DOGE has had 17 days to trace payments and conduct AI-assisted pattern recognition analysis and uncover patterns of corruption that have existed for many years.
Too slow Judge Englemayer. Get Back!