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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by ty6853 on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:08PM (#42922291)
Lon Horiuchi could not be convicted for literally sniping an unarmed women with a child in her arms, standing in a doorway of her house threatening no one. Supremacy clause for executive federal employees.

They will be fine.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by ansmithz42 on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:13PM (#42922362)
They are not executive employees, they are Musk employees, not the same thing.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by ty6853 on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:15PM (#42922386)
USDS is doge. Musk is a federal employee. Presumably they are as well, with USDS?
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by dumah on Monday February 03, 2025 @04:30PM (#42923491)
Lon Horiuchi couldn't be convicted because the state's prosecutor dropped it.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by ty6853 on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:06PM (#42923929)
... The feds invoked supremacy clause to squash the case long enough it was too stale by the time it wound through appeals. The special prosecutor did not at all want to drop it and said as much.

The supremacy clause was what ultimately killed it, by being useful enough to delay cases to the point they're dead.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by dumah on Monday February 03, 2025 @08:16PM (#42926092)
That’s fair.
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