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Dopo l'occupazione degli idiotopitechi del DOGE, l'Istituto per la Pace degli USA sembra il set di Idiocracy

Il direttore generale dello #USIP dice che il Dipartimento per l'efficienza governativa di Elon Musk ha lasciato la sede centrale dell'organizzazione no-profit a Washington DC in completo disordine, con danni causati dall'acqua, ratti e scarafaggi, secondo una nuova dichiarazione giurata riportata per la prima volta da Court Watch

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/30/doge-left-united-states-institute-of-peace-office-with-water-damage-rats-and-roaches/

@politica

At my college reunion watching a session between the college president and George Moose, head of #USIP.

In a pivotal ruling, the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) regained its headquarters as Judge Beryl Howell rejected the Trump administration's moves that ousted agency leaders. George Moose affirmed a commitment to USIP's peace mission after rogue efforts by DOGE's staff led to chaos. The Trump administration is appealing, claiming USIP's executive ties, while USIP maintains its independence. The dispute is not over yet; click for the full story. https://www.thedailybeast.com/small-agency-that-stood-up-to-doge-gets-its-building-back/ #USIP #DOGE #GeorgeMoose #TrumpAdministration #Peacebuilding #FederalCourt

#DOGE Loses Battle to #TakeOver #USIP —and Its $500 Million Headquarters

A federal judge called DOGE’s actions at the United States Institute of Peace “unlawful.”
#Musk

https://www.wired.com/story/usip-doge-headquarters-building-ruling/

>>U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled the USIP president and board members were unlawfully fired . . . and should be reinstated. In her 102-page ruling, Howell also declared that the transfers of the institute's assets, including its headquarters, seized in the administration's takeover are null and void.<<

#NPR #USIP #BerylHowell #USPol
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/19/g-s1-67681/judge-block-trump-takeover-us-institute-of-peace

Laya Neelakandan reports a decisive ruling from Judge Beryl Howell, revealing the unlawful actions by the Trump administration against the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP). Howell's order reinstates acting president George Moose and stresses USIP's independence. This ruling challenges the executive's authority in reconfiguring federal agencies and highlights ongoing judicial pushback against aggressive administrative measures. Read the full story here: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/19/doge-usip-trump-judge-unlawful.html #Trump #USIP #DOGE #ElonMusk #JudicialRuling

Judge #BerylHowell rules that #Trump / #DOGE's *entire takeover* of the U.S. Institute of Peace #USIP was unlawful—including the removal of board members & termination of programs.

Her order is very long—she not only reinstates the true board members but also boots DOGE's imposter board members & nullifies all of the illegal actions they took during their illegitimate takeover of the Institute of Peace.

#law #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #TrumpCoup #TrumpPurge #Musk
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.40.0_2.pdf

The Constitution makes clear that the President's constitutional authority only extends as far as Article II, but even Article Il does not grant him absolute removal authority over his subordinates, under current binding caselaw precedent. Outside of Article II, he has little constitutional authority to act at all. The President's efforts here to take over an organization outside of those bounds, contrary to statute established by Congress and by acts of force and threat using local and federal law enforcement officers, represented a gross usurpation of power and a way of conducting government affairs that unnecessarily traumatized the committed leadership and employees of USIP, who deserved better.

DECLARED that plaintiff Board members who were purportedly terminated remain members of the USIP Board & may be removed by the President only pursuant to the terms of 22 USC §4605(f); …the purported removal of Amb. George Moose as acting president of the Institute by a resolution adopted by less than a majority of the duly appointed Board of Directors of USIP was invalid, & therefore null, void, & w/o legal effect; it…the purported appointments of Kenneth Jackson & Nate Cavanaugh to the positions of president of USIP pursuant to resolutions adopted by less than a majority of the duly appointed Board of Directors of USIP were invalid & therefore null, void, & w/o legal effect; …Amb. Moose therefore remains president of USIP & may be removed only by a duly constituted Board of Directors, under 22 USC §4606; …all actions taken or authorized by Jackson or Cavanaugh as acting presidents of USIP were invalid & therefore null, void, & w/o legal effect; …given the illegitimate appointment of Cavanaugh to the position as USIP president, the actions & documents by which he purportedly transferred USIP's headquarters…to the GSA were invalid & therefore null, void, & w/o legal effect; …the transfer of USIP's other financial or physical assets to the GSA was likewise invalid, null void, & w/o legal effect; it is further

DECLARED that the resolution adopted by 2 ex officio Directors of USIP's Board purportedly appointing Adam Amar as president of the Endowment of the USIP Fund & authorizing & instructing him to transfer any & all of the Endowment's assets to USIP was invalid, null, void, & w/o any legal effect; …plaintiff Board members duly appointed under 22 USC §2605(b)(4) shall continue to serve in accordance w/ §4605(e) & may not be removed or treated in any way as having been removed, or otherwise obstructed from carrying out their duties…; …USIP Acting President Amb. Moose shall continue to serve in accordance w/ §4606(a) & may not be removed or treated in any way as having been removed, or otherwise obstructed from carrying out his duties…; …defendants, except for the ex officio members of USIP's Board of Directors to the extent their official positions allow, are ENJOINED from further trespass against the real & personal property belonging to the Institute & its employees, contractors, agents, & other representatives; …[&] are ENJOINED from maintaining, retaining, gaining, or exercising any access or control over the Institute's offices, facilities, computer systems, or any other records, files, or resources, & from acting or purporting to act in the name of Institute, & from using the Institute's name, emblem, badge, seal & any other mark of recognition of the Institute; it is further

ORDERED that the defendants who are ex officio members of USIP's Board of Directors may not act unilaterally or in any combination of the three of them together, without additional consent constituting a majority of members of the duly constituted USIP Board of Directors, to transfer any of USIP's assets; and it is further ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court is directed to close this case. SO ORDERED. Date: May 19, 2025 This is a final and appealable order. BERYL A. HOWELL

Judge Beryl Howell with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia struck down yet another attempt by Trump’s administration to reshape the federal government on Monday,
issuing an order ruling that the administration’s DOGE-led “unilateral actions” were
a “gross usurpation of power” that properly belonged to Congress.

The U.S. Institute of Peace ( #USIP ) was established by Congress as an “independent nonprofit corporation” in a 1984 bill signed by President Ronald Reagan
that explicitly spelled out the intention for USIP to operate independently and enacted statutory prerequisites for a president to remove any of USIP’s board members.

Over the past four decades, Congress has continued to fund USIP “through appropriations bills signed by seven different Presidents from both major political parties, including the current President during his first term in office,” wrote Howell in her 102-page opinion.

But then in “a drastic and abrupt change of course,” Trump signed an executive order in which he “unilaterally decided” that USIP is “unnecessary,” Howell continued.

This entailed “rushed” actions that were undertaken with “blunt force,
backed up by law enforcement,” including removing board members, having DOGE staff “forcibly take over USIP headquarters in mid-March” and replacing the board members,
“hand[ing] off USIP’s property for no consideration” to the General Services Administration (GSA),
and “abruptly terminat[ing] nearly all of its staff and activities around the world.”

The Trump administration took these actions
“without asking Congress to cease or reprogram appropriations or by recommending that Congress enact a new law to dissolve or reduce the Institute or transfer its tasks to another entity,”

a violation of the president’s constitutional duties under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution
https://www.mediaite.com/news/federal-judge-voids-trump-admins-effort-to-dismantle-agency-gross-usurpation-of-power-by-doge/

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#JacobAltik, 32
Lawyer at #DOGE
Connected to: #ExecutiveOfficeOfThePresident (a/k/a #EOP), #USAfricanDevelopmentFoundation (a/k/a #USADF), #InterAmericanFoundation (a/k/a #IAF), #USInstituteOfPeace (a/k/a #USIP)

Links: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/#Jacob-Altik, https://newenglandlegal.org/administrative-law-the-new-landscape-for-regulated-businesses, https://michigan.law.umich.edu/news/jacob-altik-21-looks-sharpen-his-legal-skills-upcoming-supreme-court-clerkship

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#NetworkOfDOGE
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#ElonMusk

Photo and information regarding Jacob Altik, an employee at the Department of Government Efficiency (a/k/a DOGE). From the website of ProPublica (February 6th, 2025) (Updated May 7th, 2025). Number 3, of 86.

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#JustinAimonetti, 31
Connected to: #USInstituteOfPeace (a/k/a #USIP), #USAfricanDevelopmentFoundation (a/k/a #USADF)

Links: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/#Justin-Aimonetti, https://theintercept.com/2025/03/05/leaked-list-musk-doge-lawyers, https://web.archive.org/web/20250114162922/https://www.dechert.com/people/a/justin-w-aimonetti.html, https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-aimonetti-16a50875

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#NetworkOfDOGE
#ProPublica
#DOGE
#ElonMusk

Photo and information regarding Justin Aimonettti, an employee at the Department of Government Efficiency (a/k/a DOGE). From the website of ProPublica (February 6th, 2025) (Updated May 7th, 2025). Number 2, of 86.

#Trump’s #budget calls for an elimination of the federal agency known as #AmeriCorps, whose funding for nationwide #CommunityService programs had already been slashed & its staff sent home.
Also on the list of agencies to be eliminated, which the admin said will “reduce *waste* & reduce unnecessary governmental entities,” are several small govt institutions that have been effectively gutted by #Musk’s #DOGE, including the US Institute of #Peace [#USIP] & the #Smithsonian’s Woodrow Wilson Center.

"First they came for USAID & USIP
And I didn't speak out
Bc I wasn't part of #USAID or #USIP
Then they came for the #immigrants
And I didn't speak out
Bc I wasn't an immigrant
Then they came for our #universities
And I didn't speak out
Bc I wasn't an educator or a student
Then they came for the queer community
And I didn't speak out
Bc I didn't identify as #LGBTQ+
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

My take💙on the poem by M Niemöller."
-K Kennedy

#Resist #USPol

A cartoon-style illustration depicting three historical contexts: the 1830s American West, 1940s Nazi Germany, and present-day USA. Each scene features a figure in authority accompanied by marginalized individuals, all expressing the phrase, "I’m just following orders.”

Audio 22 minutes: "GUEST: South East Asian Expert and former employee of United States Institute of Peace" Brian Harding www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #USIP #DOGe #coup #frauds #law

Elon Musk's DOGE raids United ...

"public continues to ask: is DOGE allowed to do that? This analysis aims to answer that question, evaluating the legality (or lack thereof) of many of DOGE’s highest-profile actions." www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve... #coup #frauds #law #SSA #NLRB #USIP #CFPB #NRC #DOJ #NSA #NOAA #NASA

What you need to know about DO...

Acc/to a transcript of the call provided by #Vera, Cavanaugh referenced the US Institute of Peace as an example of #DOGE assigning a team to an independent nonprofit. Last month DOGE took over & shut down #USIP, a 40-yr-old institution founded & funded by Congress that employs ~600 people in DC & abroad. USIP operates differently than Vera & other #nonprofits, which were NOT established by Congress & receive their funding from grants & #private donors.

#law #Trump #idiocracy #MafiaState

What the fuck is this? [Wired]: Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free
It’s the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk’s DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace.

https://www.wired.com/story/judge-approves-doge-usip-office-building/

#doge #usip #wtf #corruption #musk #trump #russVought #russellvought

#DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
Documents show DOGE is attempting to transfer headquarters of an independent #thinktank, #UnitedStates Institute of Peace, to gov at no cost.
Tensions at #USIP have been escalating for weeks, starting when Trump administration fired agency’s 10 voting board members and USIP staffers denied DOGE representatives access. As of Friday, most USIP staffers have been terminated.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/
https://archive.ph/8GaWL

#DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show

The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an #independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.
#takeover #usip #thinktank #Musk

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/

Documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/ #DOGE #Trump #Musk #USIP #Government #Politics

#USIP

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