#TrumpCoup #TreasuryTakeover #Musk
UPDATE
*#BusinessInsider has procured a list of the (so far) 30 people working for #CoPresident #Musk's #DOGE*
(12/n)
...organization."
"...Other names...include #JacobAltik, #KeenanKmiec, and #StephanieHolmes. #Altik was selected to clerk for Justice #NeilGorsuch for the term starting in October 2025, while #Kmiec clerked for Chief Justice #JohnRoberts, as well as for #SamuelAlito while #Alito was still a federal circuit judge....
Legal challenges to DOGE brought by several groups could ultimately reach the Supreme Court.
This week, for example, more than a dozen Democratic attorneys general said they would sue to block DOGE’s access to the Treasury Department’s payment systems,
and federal employee unions sued to challenge the DOGE-led dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
“What’s striking is how contemptuous the administration seems to be of traditional administrative law limitations
— in ways that might get them into trouble,”
said Noah Rosenblum, a law professor at New York University.
“When this stuff goes to the courts, one important question is going to be: How well-lawyered was it?” #Altik
The Elite Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE Include Former Supreme Court Clerks
Much attention has been paid to the young Silicon Valley engineers working for Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency,
but the group has also hired high-powered legal talent
All three
— Keenan Kmiec, James Burnham and Jacob Altik
— have DOGE email addresses at the Executive Office of the President, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.
#Altik was recently an attorney at the firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges,
but his bio page is now offline.
Neither the White House nor any of the three lawyers immediately responded to requests for comment about their roles.
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-doge-lawyers-supreme-court?utm_content=bufferb7ebc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
