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[quote=Anonymous]Elon Musk appears to be using the US Marshal Service for politically motivated purposes. For starters, the US Marshals Service has deputized some members of Musk's private security detail. Apparently this is highly unusual because it is usually only done with individuals with a law enforcement background and for specific short-term purposes.

In addition, the Marshalls also appear to be doing Musk's bidding by serving as "muscle" when he wants things done like getting certain offices vacated or escorting US government employees who have been fired or even just put on leave out of buildings. “You have an extragovernmental agency assigning marshals to do something that’s questionable in the first place.”

But the most chilling example of how they have been used is to lean on federal judges:

In January, DOGE reached out to the Marshals Service to “express concern” that judges weren’t acting quickly enough to release Jan. 6 defendants. After that, the acting marshal in charge of security at the DC courthouse went to the chambers of at least four judges to check on the status of Jan. 6 cases. The incident “astonished and angered a number of judges.  “We’ve never seen anything like this before—pressuring the court to issue a decision by a certain time,” the judge added. Ledogar, the former supervisory deputy marshal in New York, told me that USMS personnel are supposed to communicate with judges about courthouse security, “but as far as speaking about working faster, that is totally out of the normal.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/elon-musk-us-marshals-service-deputy-special-marshals-doge/[/quote]

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