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The emergency ruling comes as 15 Soros-installed AGs seek to block Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from access to information that would reveal how activist groups in blue states have been funded by the U.S. government.

In a stunning and sweeping emergency injunction that has even stunned the people who demanded it, a Manhattan-based district judge has just removed Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent from his authority over the Treasury Department; blocked any political appointee from accessing records within the Treasury Department; blocked any “special appointee” of President Trump from records within Treasury; and demanded that all information previously extracted be destroyed.

The emergency injunction, signed by District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan, was determined without any input from the Trump administration and applies until Friday, February 14, 2025, when U.S. District Judge Jeannette A. Vargas will hear the full arguments of the lawsuit.

The emergency ruling comes as a result of 15 (Soros-installed) attorneys general from New Jersey, New York, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Vermont all filing suit in New York seeking to block Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from access to information that would reveal how activist groups in their states have been funded by the U.S. government.

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From Reuters:

The lawsuit said Musk and his team could disrupt federal funding for health clinics, preschools, climate initiatives, and other programs, and that Republican President Donald Trump could use the information to further his political agenda.

DOGE’s access to the system also ‘poses huge cybersecurity risks that put vast amounts of funding for the States and their residents in peril,’ the state attorneys general said. They sought a temporary restraining order blocking DOGE’s access.

The judge, an appointee of Democratic former President Barack Obama, said the states’ claims were ‘particularly strong’ and warranted him acting on their request for emergency relief pending a further hearing before another judge on February 14.

‘That is both because of the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information and the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to hacking,’ Engelmayer wrote.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat whose office is leading the case, welcomed the ruling, saying nobody was above the law and that Americans across the country had been horrified by the DOGE team’s unfettered access to their data.

‘We knew the Trump administration’s choice to give this access to unauthorized individuals was illegal, and this morning, a federal court agreed,’ James said in a statement.

‘Now, Americans can trust that Musk – the world’s richest man – and his friends will not have free rein over their personal information while our lawsuit proceeds.’

Engelmayer’s order bars access from being granted to Treasury Department payment and data systems by political appointees, special government employees and government employees detailed from an agency outside the Treasury Department.

The judge also directed that anyone prohibited under his order from accessing those systems to immediately destroy anything they copied or downloaded.

The order by the judge is transparent judicial activism; it will almost certainly be overturned and nullified by later rulings. However, it creates blocks and slows down the goal of DOGE and the objective of the Trump administration.

On what basis do states think they can sue the federal government to stop the federal government from auditing federal spending? How can a judge block the executive branch from executing the functions of the executive branch? This lawfare activism is ridiculous.

Within the ruling:

… restrained from granting access to any Treasury Department payment record, payment systems, or any other data systems maintained by the Treasury Department containing personally identifiable information and/or confidential financial information of payees, other than to civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties within the Bureau of Fiscal Services who have passed all background checks and security clearances and taken all information security training called for in federal statutes and Treasury Department regulations… [Emphasis added.]

So the unelected bureaucracy is in charge and not the secretary of the Treasury?

Reprinted with permission from Conservative Treehouse.

From LifeSiteNews

X user John Strand posted what appear to be still-frame photographs taken from body camera footage during a raid on the home of a January 6 prisoner showing an FBI agent storming an infant’s bedroom.

Shocking images that appear to show FBI agents storming an infant’s bedroom with their guns drawn went viral on social media today.  

X user John Strand posted what looks to be still-frame photographs taken from body camera footage of an FBI agent during a raid on the home of January 6 prisoner on an unspecified date at least two years ago. 

“Shocking photos of a violent FBI raid executed against a peaceful J6er, terrorizing his young children,” Strand said. “The insane part? He had already surrendered to agents—but they assaulted his family at home anyway! THIS is the evil being purged from the FBI—and Democrats defend it?” 

According to the Washington Times, Strand was sentenced to two years and eight moths in prison after being found guilty of a felony and four misdemeanors related to his actions in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021. He was released last July after serving a year behind bars in a Louisiana prison. A former model and actor, he is currently the creative director at America’s Frontline Doctors. 

Strand has been posting shocking images to his X account for over a year detailing the FBI’s raid on Bobby DeGregoris’ home. DeGregoris was also found guilty of felony and misdemeanor chargers for January 6 activities, per the U.S. District Attorney’s Office website.  

In a post published in December 2024, Strand shared a video of the raid while stating, “these fascist government stormtroopers drag his wife and kids into subzero conditions, terrorizing them with assault rifles.” 

DeGregoris, who apparently is now free, responded to an X user who reshared Strand’s post. 

“This was their Superbowl,” he said to someone who accused the agents of being “excited about the opportunity to put on all their gear and go play cops and robbers.” 

On the day he was sworn in, Donald Trump pardoned nearly all of the more than 1,500 January 6 defendants. The document signed by Trump proclaimed that “a grave national injustice … has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years.” 

The order further demanded that individuals who were being held in prison be “released immediately” and that all pending indictments against potential January 6 defendants be dismissed.