Musk tonight bashed federal judges whose rulings have impeded Trump’s policies, accusing them of “undermining faith in the legal system.”
“We’ve got this issue with with judges that are activists. They’re not judges. They’re just pretending to be judges. They’re just politicians wearing judges’ robes,” Musk said during a livestreamed event with his super PAC, America PAC, in which he responded to questions from callers.
“These judges are undermining faith in the legal system because they’re supposed to be objective, but they’re clearly not being objective. They’re being just politicians, and this is not right,” Musk said, without naming any specific judges.
“We should have an independent judicial system, where it’s not a matter of politics,” he added.
More than 3½ hours after he began, Sen. Cory Booker is still speaking on the Senate floor to bring attention to what he says is the “grave and urgent” threat Americans face from the Trump administration.
Booker, D-N.J., was at one point briefly joined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., who asked him questions to give him a brief rest from speaking nonstop, but he retained control of the floor and has been speaking ever since.
Despite his marathon speech, Booker is not affecting floor consideration of any bill or nomination. Still, it’s not clear when he will stop. The record for longest speech by a senator was set in 1957, when Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes in opposition to the Civil Rights Act.
Booker has never led such a speech in the past, his office said, but he has participated in one before when he joined Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., in his 14-hour, 50-minute speech advocating for gun control legislation in 2016.
In court filings tonight, representatives from the State and Defense departments, the National Intelligence Director’s Office and the CIA submitted sworn declarations about the status of Signal messages recovered from the group chat about U.S. military strikes that inadvertently included a journalist.
The State Department representative said, “Images of the Signal chat in the possession of the Office of the Secretary have been captured and will be preserved.”
The Defense Department rep said, “A search of Secretary of Defense Hegseth’s mobile device has been conducted, and available Signal application messages that are at issue in this case have been preserved.”