A federal judge threw out DOGE and President Trump’s decisions regarding the U.S. Institute of Peace. She ruled the “illegitimately-installed leaders” had no authority to remove USIP’s president or staff. But this lady thinks she has authority over President Trump? How much long until this judge is removed? pic.twitter.com/KqESggXLuL — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) May 20, 2025 NBC News reports: A federal district judge on Monday tossed out the takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace by the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency, declaring that actions by “illegitimately-installed leaders” were “unlawful” and had to be declared “null and void.” U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled that “the removal of USIP’s president, his replacement by officials affiliated with DOGE, the termination of nearly all of USIP’s staff, and the transfer of USIP property to the General Services Administration” were “effectuated by illegitimately-installed leaders who lacked legal authority to take these actions, which must therefore be declared null and void.” The decision came two months after a dramatic showdown at the building’s headquarters in Washington, when the acting head of the Institute of Peace issued a statement saying that “DOGE has broken into our building.” After members of the DOGE team took over the building with the help of law enforcement. most institute employees were subsequently laid off. Howell wrote in her decision that the institute’s acting president, George Moose, would continue to serve as president of the organization and banned defendants from “further trespass against the real and personal property belonging to the Institute and its employees, contractors, agents, and other representatives.” RedWave Press posted: U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell has ruled that the Trump administration cannot dismantle the U.S. Institute of Peace after Elon Musk’s DOGE took over the organization and found that they had a $130,000 contract with a former member of the Taliban “for generic services.” DOGE super genius: “Just a few hours after we got into their headquarters, we found that their chief accountant had actually deleted over a terabyte of accounting records from several years.” “The DOGE team was unfortunately able to recover that data with the help of a few great people at the Institute of Peace.” “The most troubling thing was that they received $55M from Congress and any money that went unspent… they would sweep it into a private bank account… and that’s what they would use to fund events at their headquarters and the private jets.” U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell has ruled that the Trump administration cannot dismantle the U.S. Institute of Peace after Elon Musk’s DOGE took over the organization and found that they had a $130,000 contract with a former member of the Taliban “for generic services.”… pic.twitter.com/uYnVu5Po4x — RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) May 19, 2025 I guess some judges gotta learn the hard way, as DC Talk once sang. BREAKING: District Court holds firing of Board of Directors of United States Institute of Peace was beyond President’s power and is null & void & that transfer of property to GSA was void, as well as that others appointed are not appointed. 1/ pic.twitter.com/V8xQDAzrfC — Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) May 19, 2025