[U] On St. Pat's 2025 -- Whilst I Was In The Air, USDC Judge Alsup Sua Sponte Told Musk / OPM They Were Violating His Court Orders...

UPDATED @ 3:00 PM EDT: Well, Musk / OPM / Tangerine 2.0 filed a document that turns out to be a model of non-responsiveness, in answer to USDC Judge Alsup in Northern California. The able judge, as you can see, asked for a comprehensive run-down on who among the rehires were then put on admin. leave, and what was the progress on rehiring. What the government sent back to him was two individual examples it had already filed in Baltimore Maryland, in other litigation alleging that the government is thwarting THAT judge's orders.

The answer is, in fact, no answer at all. "Here are two examples" is not a run down on how "admin. leaves" are being deployed, globally. Moreover if it is a matter of just turning the badges back on, that should take all of about 10 minutes, and all should be back on the payroll -- delivering services. That is what the order contemplates -- not a cat and mouse game. I think Judge Alsip will have sharp words for this gamesmanship, Elon. End update.

This level of insouciance hasn't been seen since Jim Crow days, with various government actors openly defying federal orders.

In this case, OPM's prior mass firings "for poor performance" of tens of thousands of probationary federal employees (including at HUD) was ruled unlawful, since none of them were actually documented as poor performers. So judges around the nation ordered them rehired, and paid paychecks while this litigation gets sorted out. But Musk being Musk, he put them back on "admin. leave". Now before the 3 PM Eastern today, Musk / OPM must explain this attempt to violate the existing preliminary injunction in San Francisco's federal trial courts. Damn:

. . .The Court has read news reports that, in at least one agency, probationary employees are being rehired but then placed on administrative leave en masse. This is not allowed by the preliminary injunction, for it would not restore the services the preliminary injunction intends to restore.

Defendants shall state the extent to which any rehired probationary employees are being placed on administrative leave by MARCH 18, 2025, AT NOON.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 17, 2025. . . .

Musk himself could ultimately be jailed for contempt, behind all of this. What a. . . putz. Onward.

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