The judge denies the effort to restore the Board of the Institute of Peace of the United States, but criticizes the “abominable” treatment of the abominable personnel “of Doge

A federal judge denied on Wednesday an emergency effort of officials expelled from the Peace Institute of the United States to immediately restore their positions, but attacked the Trump administration about what she described as an “abominable” treatment for “strong arms” of her office this week using armed agents that act in the name of the Government Efficiency Department.

“I am very offended by how Dege has operated at the Institute and treated US citizens who were trying to do a job that had the task of doing at the institute,” said District Judge Beryl Howell. “But that concern … is not one that I have to influence my consideration of the factors for a tro.”

Howell questioned USIP Goldfarb’s lawyer about the extraordinary series of events that led Doge agents, with the help of armed agents of the FBI, the DC Metropolitan Police Department, as well as lawyers of the DCU lawyers office, eliminating Monday from the office office.

According to Goldfarb and the sworn testimony of the leaders expelled from USIP and the building director of the building, the institute received information as soon as March 8 that Doge personnel were making “recognition efforts” to evaluate USIP security operations.

Last Friday, when the members of the USIP Board of Directors received emails who had been fired from their positions, Doge personnel members reached the headquarters where USIP security personnel denied the entrance. Later in the day, Doge employees returned with FBI agents who accompanied them and again were denied entry, according to judicial records.

On Saturday, the main security officer of the Institute reported that he was visited by two FBI agents at his home that interrogated him about how to enter the building, although he was on a medical license and was surprised by his visit.

Then, the agents contacted another security officer and told him that he was subject to investigation by the Department of Justice about his refusal to grant Doge agents access to USIP, after which he made the institute’s recommendation to finish his relationship with the contractor who supervises the safety operations of the building after expressing his concern that he dogs with the contractor against the existing personnel.

The events led to a confrontation at the USIP headquarters on Monday, where the leaders expelled again denied the entrance to representatives of DEGE and the security contractor, at one time ordering a complete blockade of the building “for security purposes”.

The DC police finally arrived and escorted the members of the building while granting access to the representatives of Doge.

“I mean, this realization of the use of the application of the law, threatening criminal investigation, the use of the application of the armed law of three different agencies … to carry out the executive order … with everything that is probably directed by terrorizing employees and personnel in the institute when there are many other legal ways to achieve the objectives [of the executive order]… Because? “Howell asked.” Why those forms here, just because Doge is in a hurry? “

Brian Hudak, a government lawyer, defended the government’s actions, arguing that Trump’s replacement as an interim president of USIP, Kenneth Jackson, was the legally designated chief of the Institute and those eliminated should not have avoided access to the building.

“The way in which it has been portrayed in the documents of the plaintiffs and perhaps elsewhere that it was an assault or assault of the building: it is Mr. Jackson, who is president of the organization that seeks access to the building of his organization,” said Hudak.

“Are you at least offended by how this was executed?” Howell pressed. “Because I have to say that I am offended on behalf of the US citizens who have done as much, as I just said that Mr. Moose himself, both service to this country, to be treated so abominably, and much less the directors on the board.”

“I will put it in this way, for strong arm to a private contractor, to threaten this security chief: threaten people with a criminal investigation given the clear statute … Don’t you think it’s a bit offensive?” She asked.

Hudak responded by presenting a hypothetical if Trump withdrew him from his work and “decided to lock me into my office,” he said. “That is basically what happened on Friday, as I understand.”

Hudak also argued that even if Trump did not explicitly follow the statute that Usip established when he moved to fire his interim president and members of the Board, he was still justified in doing so under his powers to eliminate article II.

Howell, however, said that the government was running out of showing that George Moose, the interim president of USIP dismissed by Trump, as well as other directors of the described board, were legally fired.

Collecting with the procedures on Wednesday was the unusual legal position of USIP compared to other federal agencies. The Institute is technically a independent non -profit corporation established by Congress and designed to have a bipartisan board of directors that vote to appoint its president.

Howell noted that the judges in the DC District Court and in other jurisdictions throughout the country have had to fight with a lack of clarity in the legal precedent on the president’s dismissal authorities who will finally have to be decided by the Supreme Court.

To further complicate the case of the members of the USIP Board, it was that the head of action fired by Trump, Robert Moose, was not technically added as a demanding demand.

Howell said he was not sure how he could restore him as president of USIP if he did not join other members of the Board to specifically request it.

Howell also expressed concern if he ordered the government essentially to “transfer” at the USIP facilities, if that would risk inviting an “armed battle” if he refused, given his previous disposition of taking armed agents to escort the installation officials.