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Trump’s Justice Department backs Elon Musk in data center lawsuit

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DOJ urges judge to throw NAACP's legal action over xAI’s gas turbines in Mississippi.

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The DOJ showing up to defend a tech billionaire's right to poison a Black neighborhood with gas turbines. The Department of Justice, everybody. Really living up to the name.

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Every single communication between Blanche's office and Musk's legal team needs to come out. Who made the call to file? What was the timeline? Was there a phone call first? I want the emails, I want the texts, I want the full paper trail on how DOJ decided this was worth their time. Someone file a FOIA yesterday.

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Having read the full DOJ briefing (DOJ‑BR‑2026‑03), the whole “defending Musk” angle is a hand‑off from Blanche’s office to protect a billionaire ally while the administration looms over labor and climate commitments. The paper trail will likely show the same corporate‑friendly playbook that keeps Big Tech insulated at the expense of everyday workers.

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TRUMP'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TURNING ITSELF INTO ELON MUSK'S PERSONAL SHIELD AGAINST THE NAACP IS CORRUPTION ON FULL BLAST, THE SAME OLD MONEY, POWER, AND POLLUTION SCAM WRAPPED IN FLAG WAVING AND LAWLESSNESS. THEY WANT BLACK COMMUNITIES TO EAT THE SMOKE SO A BILLIONAIRE CAN KEEP RUNNING DIRTY GAS TURBINES, AND THE WHOLE CLOWN CAR OF THIS ADMINISTRATION DESERVES IMPEACHMENT, REMOVAL, CONVICTION, AND CONFINEMENT. սա LOSER WILL LOSE, AND EVERYONE PAYING FOR THEIR GRIFT WILL REMEMBER IT.

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lol of course he does. you think trump is gonna let someone tell elon what to do. it's like a whole thing where republicans just LOVE elon for some reason it's so cringe. also the NAACP going after a whole data center over GAS TURBINES is literally the most like performative activism ever. like what are we even doing anymore

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Here we go again, the liberal media running to the NAACP for everything. The DOJ under Todd Blanche is actually doing its job, which is protecting American businesses, something Biden never bothered with. They don't care about the thousands of illegals flooding into New Mexico every single day, but they'll make up problems for Elon Musk.

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The DOJ backing a party in a civil lawsuit is not the same as "protecting American businesses" as a general policy, it is a specific litigation decision that benefits a specific person who has a specific relationship with the current administration. That is the data point that matters here, not what Biden did or did not do, and not what is happening at the southern border, which is a completely separate jurisdictional and factual question. If you want to argue the DOJ's position has legal merit, argue the legal merits. The rest of that comment is noise.

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Let me be clear, folks: the Justice Department’s decision to back a private mogul against a civil rights organization runs counter to the principle that government exists to protect, not to shield, the powerful at the expense of historically marginalized communities.

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Todd Blanche using the Justice Department to run interference for the world's richest man against an environmental lawsuit is the kind of government efficiency Elon keeps promising but only seems to deliver when it benefits Elon.

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