Posted on 02/10/2025 6:26:53 AM PST by bitt
In yet another desperate attempt to keep Donald Trump and his allies under legal fire, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is now threatening a nationwide class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration and Elon Musk over an alleged “data breach.”
Raskin claims that the Trump White House mishandled government data and that Musk’s newly created U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) played a role in the so-called security failure.
Appearing on “The Weekend” with Michael, Raskin floated the idea that Musk’s team of “Midnight fascist teenagers” somehow managed to access every American’s computer data.
His so-called legal argument hinges on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986, a Reagan-era statute meant to prevent hacking.
According to Raskin, this law gives individual citizens the right to sue if their personal data has been compromised.
His master plan? A class-action lawsuit on behalf of every single American citizen against Trump, Musk, and DOGE.
Michael: Welcome, Congressman. I’m loving this theory—it’s very interesting. Explain to us how citizens can sue Elon Musk and Doge, and how 18 U.S. Code § 1030 can be applied.
Raskin: So, the first thing to understand, Michael, is we are winning in the courts, and people need to understand that. Judge Giacob, in the District Court in the District of Columbia, just halted their efforts to out thousands—I think 6,000—FBI agents across the country for their involvement in prosecuting January 6th. Judge Kholar-Kotelly shut down the raid on the Treasury Department. So, the courts are doing their job.
I’ve been at rallies all week because a rally a day keeps the fascists away. But it was bugging me that these guys—Elon Musk’s midnight fascist crew of teenagers and twenty-somethings—have been able to access everybody’s computer data in the country. That’s why a lot of the courts are getting involved. But it was killing me because I wanted to spend some time with the statutes.
So, this weekend, I’ve been looking into the statutes, and one of them, which is becoming contested now, is called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. It was actually pushed by Ronald Reagan, who, at Camp David, had seen the movie WarGames and got very concerned about the security of government computers. He, with Congress, pushed for a statute to make it a crime to, on an unauthorized basis, obtain other people’s information and then distribute it.
There have been tons of criminal prosecutions under that. But if you read the statute, there’s also a private right of action. If you are a citizen—and you can integrate this with taxpayer privacy data statutes—if you are a citizen whose private data has been compromised through a breach of government computers, you can actually sue for damages.
What I’m thinking about—and talking to my friends at Democracy Defenders and other lawyers about—is: could there be a nationwide class action lawsuit to follow up on last week’s victory against Musk? Against the Trump administration for this breach in computer security and the data of all American taxpayers? It could be a class action suit on behalf of all Americans.
If the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers want to opt out and they don’t want their part of the money for the contamination of their data—fine, they can opt out. But really, it’s a suit on behalf of everybody because that’s our information. It doesn’t belong to Elon Musk or his little midnight crew. It belongs to the people, and the government has to hold it in trust.
Now, there are specific statutes which say that information can only be accessed for tax purposes—for the purposes of the Internal Revenue System—and for no other purposes. What are they using that information for?
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Raskin reminds me of my ex husband in law and father to my Jewish proto step son who is a microbiologist genius and all around nice boy now living in Austin having moved from Boca
The ex husband in law on the other hand was Queens raised red diaper baby from Russian Jewish extraction
Horrific childhood crazy mother and he was just truly crude and coarse and hated anyone remotely conservative and religious and at the time snotty rich
A stereotype on steroids
However he could be incredibly funny and quick prolly would have made a great comedian
Once we were outside the original basement locale of Buca in Minneapolis
A bum came up off his bench accosting us claiming he looked like Danny De Vito as the Penguin from Batman
Howie always sharp retorts “oh you live here sorry to invade your living room bud”
lol
His delivery made me laugh outloud
Anyhow long rant but maybe Raskin is like that he strikes me so
A little redemption if he has any humour
I really liked the boy and and enjoy when he visits and I tolerate his dad admittedly
Lefties just can’t help it and it’s in his blood as much as much social conservatism is in mine as a son of Dixe
Anyone here who breaks free of their origin stereotype for the better I salute you
Truly
Jamie Raskin calls freedom of information a data breach the left are busted for their massive corruption operation shifty lawyers uniting isn’t a game plan it’s cliff diving.
Raskin has absolutely no idea if there has been a “data breach” or not. The black rob tyrant either.
Ignore both of them.
5.56mm
Right. No standing would be a poetic justice after the 2020 election challenges were denied. They have to prove they were injured.
The first question to any Dem congressman should be: Did you ever receive a campaign donation from an NGO funded by USAIDS? Yes or no congressman.
So Ratskin is saying the Federal Treasury has my personal financial data, and I should trust them more than DOGE/Musk/Trump?
Stop talking and do Democrats. Show every every US vote that you are the party of corruption, fraud and waste.
This guy is definitely dirty. I bet there is some fraudulent payments to him somewhere in treasury payments system
Oh My God!!! I think you just helped me connect a ‘dot.’
A few months ago there was a hack done at the Treasury. They ‘claimed’ at the time everything was secure. Nothing to worry about, nothing to see here.
US Treasury says Chinese hackers stole documents in ‘major incident’https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/us-treasurys-workstations-hacked-cyberattack-by-china-afp-reports-2024-12-30/
Now fast forward to today’s newsfeeds...and the lawsuit of an alleged data breach...
They are going to cause or have paid some entity to cause a massive data breach and blame DOGE. The lawsuit(s) are just buying them time to orchestrate it. It won’t be Trump or DOGE that crashes they system...it will be the democrats.
Get ready folks...the democrats and deep state are going to do something anyone is looking for...until right now. They have a poison pill either planted or being planted.
Adjusts his tinfoil hat... DOGE team might be the only ones that can find it.
Time to take the gloves off.
This POS needs to just “disappear”.
OK, so let me get this straight: through legal discovery by, very likely, non-governmental entities, our private data will need to be gleaned as evidence so that you can try to prove how data in the hands of one government entity ("fascist kids") was compromised in their hands versus the hands of another government entity that criminally wasted billions of the said victims' dollars. This ought to be fun!
No Ratskin, it was the Biden/Obama Droogs that burned cities, you lying filthy flea bitten rat bastard.
Raskin needs investigated immediately. He doth protest too much.
No, that looks too obvious.
But see post 48.
PS: My entire life was turned upside-down years ago when I worked with NASA. Data breach at the time ss#, photo, etc. right down to my own fingerprints. Life has never been the same since. I don’t recall how many people were affected at that time.
Hey Jamie!
y’all did not conta
ct me, therefore y’all busy lying as y’all do, anyway!
I voted for Trump to take a chainsaw to the corrupt in DC/FedGov.
I’m not willing to be part of any ‘lawsuit’ that stops ending the waste/corruption
This reskin fraud is your typical Maryland LIBloser who should be investigated for sedition and other crimes. What a pathetic putz. He is despised by the few sane people who are still in maryland.
Ya .....”gotta shut down Trump/Musk/DOGE....cuz the DemocRATS felony money laundering is being exposed!!””
“Jamie Raskin DOESN’T represent NOR speak for ALL AMERICANS”
Raskin speaks for his constituents. Unless he has a bill he wants to present to congress, he needs to stfu and stop trying to out Schumer Schumer.
You never go full Schumer.
HE IS BEGGING FOR A DEEP DIVE & THOROUGH LOOK-SEE INTO EVERY DAY OF HIS MISERABLE LIFE.
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