Elon Musk has assume to attributing any determination that go against the wish of the Trump administration to being part of a “ discriminative coup , ” and he ’s already putting money behind Congressional candidates who also find the concept of checks and balances to be distasteful . According to the New York Times , Musk has already made the maximal individual contribution to seven Republican Congressional candidate who have shown a willingness to support impeaching or penalise judges .
Per the Times , the nominee who have found a $ 6,600 check made out to them from the bank account of Elon Musk include : Representatives Eli Crane of Arizona , Lauren Boebert of Colorado , Andy Ogles of Tennessee , Andrew Clyde of Georgia , Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin and Brandon Gill of Texas . He also hold to Senator Chuck Grassley , Republican of Iowa .
Grassley and Boebert are probably the most familiar characters on the list , but Brandon Gill is a name to watch out here . He ’s just 31 years old and serving his first term in Congress , and he ’s made it clear-cut he ’s going to attempt to make a name for himself while he ’s there . Also his father - in - law is Dinesh D’Souza , so he ’s got grifting in his family . GillfiledArticles of Impeachment this workweek against James Boasberg , the Union jurist who hinder the Trump administration ’s effort to deport immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act .
Elon Musk stands with his hands pressed together© DVIDS / U.S. Air Force photo by Trevor Cokley
Gill is n’t the only one to get the Musk Bump for their willingness to attempt to upend the judicature for issuing opinion they do n’t like . Arizona ’s Eli Crane and Wisconsin ’s Van Ordenledacall to impeachDistrict Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York ( which is notably not in Arizona nor Wisconsin ) for his decision to pump the brakes on some of the crusade of the Department of Government Efficiency .
Ogles , meanwhile , has not onlyfiledArticles of Impeachment against a justice ( his target : District Judge John Bates , who rule the Trump administration would have to fix edit webpages related to LGBTQ health issues ) but has also decided to lead his own last - run around the law of nature . He alsoproposed an amendmentto the U.S. Constitution that would allow Donald Trump to tend for a third condition .
Musk ’s donations , which are fairly small in the dodge of thing , serve as a signal for what his potential causes will be in the come election cycles . Musk is actively gutting the bureaucracy that he claim is somehow find in the room of democracy , but he ca n’t single - handedly gut the judicature to get rid of the umpires who keep call strikes when he desire them to call balls . or else , he ’ll need to stack the pack of cards in Congress to pull that off .
Funnily enough , Musk does n’t even seem to hump what his goal is : heposted“We ask 60 senators to impeach the judges and restore convention of the people , ” But it is theHouse that impeaches . The Senateconvictsand that requires a two - third majority , which means it would take 67 senator . But allow ’s be sightly , civics is n’t really Musk ’s interestingness here . get his elbow room is .
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