The hard fight to keep the federal government as inefficient as possible continues to rage on, as 14 blue states joined together on Thursday to sue President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Department of Government Efficiency.
In what shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, Democrats don't want Americans to get what they overwhelmingly voted for in November, and they're willing to use one of their favorite tools — lawfare:
The coalition of states, led by New Mexico, alleges that Musk's expansive role as the head of DOGE violates the Appointments Clause of the Constitution given that he has not been confirmed by the Senate.
In other words, liberals are big mad that their legions of unelected bureaucrats are being held accountable and uprooted by Trump's unelected bureaucrat (namely, Elon Musk).
The coalition of blue states even trotted out a disingenuously reverent allusion to the Founding Fathers to emphasize its point:
'Mr. Musk's seemingly limitless and unchecked power to strip the government of its workforce and eliminate entire departments with the stroke of a pen or click of a mouse would have been shocking to those who won this country's independence,' they wrote.
The states participating in the lawsuit are the usual suspects, a veritable all-star team of failed liberal states:
The states — Arizona, Michigan, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington in addition to New Mexico — are asking the court to bar Musk and his DOGE team from taking a wide range of actions.
They seek to prevent the Tesla CEO and his aides from making changes to the disbursement of public funds, government contracts, regulations or personnel, as well as receiving access to or altering data systems.
Fortunately, we have clever social media users to point out the absurdity, hypocrisy, and overall preposterousness of the lawsuit:
These lib states should have remembered one important element...
... lawfare doesn't work against Trump.
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