‪Jay Willis‬ ‪@jaywillis.net‬
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Even by his standards, the gutter racism of Elon Musk's attacks on federal judges of color is pretty shocking. As usual, I am not saying anyone "should" be on X, but the right-wing frenzy happening over there is alarming and dangerous. https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/musk-judges-attacks-racist-dangerous/

Elon Musk’s Attacks On Judges Are Getting More Racist and More Dangerous
Of the judges who have blocked the unelected billionaire’s efforts to take over the government, you can probably guess which ones he is angriest about.
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Elon Musk’s Attacks On Judges Are Getting More Racist and More Dangerous
Of the many federal judges who have blocked the unelected billionaire’s efforts to take over the government, you can probably guess which ones he is angriest about.

Law & Politics
Deranged Freaks
By Jay Willis February 27, 2025

In recent weeks, federal judges across the country have blocked several of President Donald Trump’s more ambitious attempts to treat following the law as optional. Elon Musk, who is leading the administration’s efforts to cut government spending, people, and spending on people, has responded as he is wont to do: by posting incessantly, calling for the impeachment of “fake,” “corrupt,” “activist” judges for “violating the will of the people.” His timeline on X, the social media app he ruined, is littered with conspiratorial screeds about the dastardly ulterior motives that these judges must have had for preventing an unelected billionaire from assuming the power of the legislative and executive branches all for himself.

On February 10, after Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the reinstatement of the head of a federal whistleblower protection agency whom Trump tried to remove from office, an irate Musk tweeted that “democracy in America is being destroyed by judicial coup.” As is always the case when conservatives employ such terms, Musk’s working definition of an “activist” judge encompasses any judge who does something he does not like.

No judge has been subjected to more of Musk’s vitriol than Judge Amir Ali, a Biden appointee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who recently set a deadline for the White House to release illegally-withheld funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development. (On Wednesday, the Supreme Court temporarily paused Ali’s order to give the Trump administration time to respond.) “Impeach Ali!” Musk wrote, replying to a tweet that identified Ali, in time-honored dog-whistling fashion, as “39-year-old Canadian-born Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, the first Muslim and Arab DC judge.” Another Musk tweet quoted with approval a conservative media personality who called Ali a “dual citizen” who must be “impeached and investigated” for “stopping the President from cutting fraudulent spending.”

In still another tweet, Musk veered even further into unvarnished racism and smirking xenophobia. “Tragic that Amir Ali could have been writing software instead of forcing taxpayers to fund bogus NGOs,” he wrote. “He’s another victim of the woke mind virus.”

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