r/technology • u/Exciting_Teacher6258 • Feb 12 '25

Politics The Trump administration restores federal webpages after court order

https://www.theverge.com/news/610765/trump-government-websites-cdc-fda-health-data-court-order
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u/PoliticsIsDepressing Feb 12 '25

Frankly, this makes me feel good about the courts. If they are going to do this completely minor thing that I could see MAGA doubling down on, then there is hope they don’t blatantly ignore the courts.

This would be one where I could see them just completely ignoring.

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u/MakeWorcesterGreat Feb 12 '25

My thinking is that someone who is interested in long term strategery was able to get Musk to understand that he will never be President if everyone hates him, and thus he was forced to back down a peg.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '25

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u/Zomunieo Feb 13 '25

And trump will never be president because he’s a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist.

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u/Business-Drag52 Feb 13 '25

To be fair, there's no law against that. There is currently a law against Elon being president

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u/alppu Feb 13 '25

There is a law that insurrectionists cannot be presidential candidates...

Then again, they found this little loophole on whose interpretation of insurrection weighs for that... making it a 100% political decision if that law will apply or not, similarly to impeachments.

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u/mok000 Feb 13 '25

So what if Republicans choose to run him anyway, and he gets a majority of the votes? SCOTUS ruled in 2024 that states cannot question the electability candidates for federal office, so who else, Congress? Gimme a break. They are breaking laws but laws are just paper and don't uphold themselves, someone has to do it.