A judge is allowing the release of deposition videos of two former DOGE staffers, ruling that the risk of "reputational harm" does not overcome the public's interest.

A federal judge is allowing the release of deposition videos of two former DOGE staffers, ruling that the risk of “embarrassment and reputational harm” is not enough to overcome the public interest in the videos.

U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon on Monday lifted an earlier order requiring a group of nonprofits to remove the videos from the internet after lawyers with the Justice Department argued that the former DOGE staffers faced threats because of the depositions’ release.

While Judge McMahon acknowledged that the former staffers faced threats, she said the DOJ could not prove a “particularized harm” to the former staffers that would overcome the public interest in their official conduct as government employees.

    • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I hope these videos follow them for the rest of their lives. Especially that bit where Justin Fox called a holocaust documentary “inheritly discriminatory” because it focused on “females” and “Jewish people”. 54:10 in this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TZheRo273ns

      Oh, and the part where he said that a documentary about an anti-black massacre is DEI and “not to the benefit of human kind because it focuses on a specific race, here being black” (and therefore the grant should be terminated). 28:11 in this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qtFdVtBb75s

      Of course, there’s more, like allowing ChatGPT to hallucinate and incorrectly mark grants as DEI, and then basically just having it do his entire “job”. He couldn’t even define what DEI is, and constantly said “I’ll have to refer to the EO.” He seemed to just slap the entire EO and grant list into the slop generator and accept whatever the output was, and then sent the slop up the chain.

      Remember, Justin Fox is a racist, antisemitic, homophobic, transphobic piece of shit that couldn’t even do his basic, yet high paying job correctly. Because of Justin Fox, hundreds of thousands lost their jobs, and people have died because of him. He also failed to make any sort of dent in the ever-growing deficit, so it was all for nothing. Justin Fox is a terrible person and employee, and no company should waste their time with hiring him in the future.