Library of Congress Staff Turn Away New MAGA Bosses
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Two Justice Department officials who thought they had been appointed into top roles at the library were denied entry on Monday.

The two officials—Paul Perkins, an associate deputy attorney general, and Brian Nieves, a deputy chief of staff and senior policy counsel—were seeking access to the U.S. Copyright Office but were denied entry at around 9 a.m., sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity told The New York Times.

Despite Trump’s appointment of Blanche as acting librarian of Congress, library staff have reportedly been recognizing Robert Newlen as their interim replacement instead, according to The Times’ sources. Newlen was principal deputy librarian and Hayden’s second-in-command.

Staff seem to be waiting for direction from Congress, with Newlen additionally sending an email to employees saying he did not recognize Blanche’s appointment as valid, according to Politico.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    77·
    1 day ago

    Why couldn’t other agencies do this? Almost none of the DOGE crap that’s been done has been legal. So why did anybody listen to them at all?

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      60·
      1 day ago

      Library of Congress is not part of the executive branch so constitutionally speaking, they don’t have new bosses unless Congress says so.

      That being said, I could make the argument that DOGE is not a valid department and that all government employees should have resisted yet here we are.

      • 5C5C5C@programming.dev
        32·
        1 day ago

        In many of those cases, the building/department security sided with DOGE and physically forced the government employees to comply. There wasn’t much they could do to resist without ending up assaulted and detained having accomplished nothing.

        My biggest fear over the next few years is how many people who have chosen a career in “enforcement” are just salivating at the chance to be part of Team Nazi.

        • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
          11·
          20 hours ago

          My biggest fear over the next few years is how many people who have chosen a career in “enforcement” are just salivating at the chance to be part of Team Nazi.

          In a lot of enforcement industries it is not really a venn diagram, just two circles with just the tiniessssst bit of offset between them.

        • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          24 hours ago

          how many people who have chosen a career in “enforcement” are just salivating at the chance to be part of Team Nazi.

          If it’s less than 99% …

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
      46·
      1 day ago

      librarians have been dealing with republicans trying to take full control of all libraries for many decades

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 day ago

      There was one division that I saw go by that did, and was arrested. I’m guessing that they didn’t expect this from librarians.