“He needs to be impeached NOW!” Elon Musk declared Saturday after an Obama-appointed judge blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from exposing Treasury Department waste of taxpayers’ money.
Musk, who heads DOGE, called for the impeachment of “a corrupt judge protecting corruption,” in reply to a social media post on X.com by commentator Glenn Beck, who noted the absurdity of blocking the Treasury Department from accessing Treasury data.
While U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent supporters DOGE’s efforts to root out wasteful spending, 19 Democrat state attorneys general – led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who prosecuted Trump on dubious fraud charges being appealed – filed a lawsuit to block the audit.
In a ruling on Saturday, Obama-appointed District Judge Paul Engelmayer temporarily blocking DOGE from reviewing Treasury Department expenditures – and signaling he plans to make the block permanent.
Musk has doubled down in subsequent posts supporting other calls for the impeachment of Judge Engelmayer.
“Impeach the judge,” former Republican Florida congressman and Attorney Matt Gaetz responded to Musk’s “corrupt judge” post. “Yes,” Musk replied to Gaetz.
Another Florida attorney, Kevin Gross, called for the judge’s impeachment in a post explaining how the judge’s interference with DOGE, a department created by the Executive Branch, violates the separation of powers prescribed by the U.S. Constitution:
“A judge has no Constitutional authority to ban an Executive Branch appointee from accessing anything in an Executive Branch agency. The President is the head of the branch. The judge has no power over that plenary Constitutional authority. Defy the orders. Impeach the judge.”
Since its creation, DOGE has uncovered millions of dollars and a wide range of wasteful government spending. Examples include:
VIRUS CURED: DOGE Cancels NIH's Plans For an Anthony Fauci Museum
DOGE: FEMA Spent $59 MILLION on 'Luxury' NYC Hotels For Illegals Last Week Alone
Government Wasted Millions Creating Transgender Mice, Rats and Monkeys
Eight USAID Grants Spent More Than a Half-Billion Taxpayer Dollars on ESG/DEI