US District Judge Ana Reyes, appointed by Biden, refuses to immediately reinstate #InspectorsGeneral fired by Trump, excoriating their lawyers for waiting 3wks to file emergency relief.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/us/politics/trump-inspectors-general-ruling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU4.JfSI.BEZVYlCS99z3

Won't link to the conservative Washington Examiner gleeful report. No doubt RW media will be all over it.

What might acct for Judge Reyes' unnecessarily humiliating words?

Maybe she feels a target on her back? You bet the judge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_C._Reyes

#Musk/TrumpFirings #TrumpPurge

Frmr #VA IG Michael Missal on Velshi on what he thinks the reason for Musk/Trump firing of #InspectorsGeneral:

Maybe they don't want independent oversight.
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Me:
Ya think?

Amazing how brazen the lies are getting. #Rubio claims #USAID was shut down because of "insubordination", as if they were somehow cutting checks they didn't have the authority to. Or something.

Absolute total bullshit. What they're supposed to cut the checks for, and who should receive them is all in the laws and the regulations and accounted for very closely. This is not something anybody can (well, maybe NOW they can) walk in and just cut a check and hand it out with nobody noticing.

Now we know why the #InspectorsGeneral were fired: because the ones who were there could have told people Rubio is a lying piece of shit, lying for his boss the grand piece of shit.

The IGs were originally hired because most of them actually had some integrity (which is a reason Biden went ahead and kept them around).

Now, integrity is a problem. To get the public on board, he has to lie about what the government does...and the IGs had all the evidence that claims like this are lies.

Attack on #Science – #InspectorsGeneral Play an Important Role in Maintaining #ScientificIntegrity. They were Just Fired
If federal employees, including federal scientists, are concerned about waste, fraud, or abuse of actions and policies, they can raise concerns to IG’s office. For scientific integrity policy, if a scientist is being censored or told to manipulate their scientific work to meet political goals, their first stop should be raising the concern/
https://scilight.substack.com/p/attack-on-science-inspectors-general

Senator Chris Murphy shreds Donald Trump #chrismurphy #senator #trump #corruption #law #order #violence #politics #henchmen #rioters #pardons #safety #dissent #loyalty #democracy #inspectorsgeneral youtu.be/4745QSM17l4?...

Senator Murphy on Donald Trump...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AjH-PE0SvQ

The #ExecutiveBranch needs to follow the fucking #law.

#InspectorsGeneral #USAFascistShitShow

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-25-2025

..."#Congress passed a law in 1978 to create #inspectorsgeneral in 12 #government departments. According to Jen Kirby, who explained inspectors general for Vox in 2020, a movement to combat waste in government had been building for a while, and the fraud and misuse of offices in the administration of President Richard M. Nixon made it clear that such protections were necessary. Essentially, ins "...

Re: Friday night midnight massacre wholesale inspector general purge, looking for complete list of names - not just departments.

PSA: Senate Inspector General Caucus
Government Executive: Inspectors general have a new bipartisan caucus in the Senate #IGcaucus
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2025/01/inspectors-general-have-new-bipartisan-caucus-senate/402256/

Hey, Wikipedians, wondering if beyond-Nixonian #FridayNightMassacre is worthy of a new Wikipedia article; there's one for the 2020 trickle of Friday night IG massacres.
#CIGIE #InspectorGeneral #InspectorsGeneral

“U.S. President Donald Trump's administration fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies late on Friday, the Washington Post reported.

The agencies include the departments of defense, state, transportation, veterans affairs, housing and urban development, interior, and energy, the newspaper said”

#Politics #USPolitics #FridayNightPurge #InspectorsGeneral #DemocracyMatters #DemocracyVsOligarchy #ElectionsMatter

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-fires-least-12-independent-inspectors-general-washington-post-reports-2025-01-25/