After the outrageous coordinated lawfare against President Trump propelled him to the White House for a second time, you'd think the legal establishment might just be more ... circumspect about its means of Getting Trump. You'd think they'd lay low. Maybe just for a spell.

But they're not. They're now moving against him like broken clocks spinning their hands, or chickens with their heads cut off:

According to Breitbart News:

A federal judge issued a ruling on Saturday, blocking Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from having access to Treasury Department data and records.

U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer explained in his order that the court had “received an application for a temporary restraining order filed by” attorney generals in 19 states.

Engelmayer explained the lawsuit from attorney generals in New York, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin “challenges a new policy by the United States Department of Treasury,” which comes at the direction of President Donald Trump and Scott Bessent, the Secretary of the Treasury.

The new policy “expands access to the payment systems of the Bureau of Fiscal Services” to political appointees within the Trump administration, and “special government employees,” Engelmayer added.

In what universe is the Treasury Secretary not allowed to look at the records of the agency he manages?

If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.

If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal.

Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 9, 2025

Especially one with problems like this:

The magnitude of the fraud in government payments (your tax dollars being spent) is MUCH higher than you think! https://t.co/umnT8Zm4Mb

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2025

The reported shenanigans involved were pretty bad, too:

The judge's rationale for the maneuver seems to have been pulled out of the air -- there isn't any. And he didn't give the Trump administration any time to reply.

Now the Trump team will have to work without records, without data, with no knowledge of how the Treasury's funds are spent because the deep state says the Trump team, legitimately elected by the voters, has no right to see them.

It was a ruling so bad, so disruptive, so overreaching into the executive branch that it surely will be overturned by a higher court, after a lengthy legal battle, and while that should disgrace the judge for awhile, it also may be the plan -- to cut into Trump's term so that he cannot govern at all.

Musk, for one, thinks something sleazy is going on:

It's definitely the deep state and administrative state fighting and thrashing like a speared shark in the water.

They definitely caught something. Now the issue is how to bring it in.

Perhaps Trump can go the Full Biden and just ignore the ruling, as Biden did with so many rulings during his term.

But he shouldn't have to.

Perhaps he can fight it out in the courts for relief -- what sane judge wouldn't rule against this radical leftist judge's claim that Trump is not allowed to govern?

Yet the damage is already done by this ruling, to the credibility of the judicial system, whose operating principle has descended into ipse dixit, which colloquially speaking, means 'whatever the heck I say it means.'

This tells us the judicial system is no longer doing its job, but acting on behalf of special interests -- and fighting hard to keep its privileges.

It, too, needs a good hosing out, probably as a priority item.

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