On Saturday, a federal judge ruled to block not only Trump advisor Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency team from accessing the Treasury Department's payment system, but possibly also even the Senate-confirmed Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent.

In reaction to the controversial order that has been viewed by many as an egregious overstep of judicial authority, Musk called for the judge to be impeached and removed from the bench, Breitbart reported.

Musk was far from alone in calling for the judge's impeachment, and many Americans urged Musk, DOGE, and the Trump administration to ignore the ruling that seemingly unconstitutionally violates the separation of powers doctrine.

Judge shuts down DOGE at Treasury

Newsmax reported that U.S. District Judge Paul Englemayer in New York, an Obama appointee, sided with a coalition of 19 Democrat-led states on Saturday and issued an emergency temporary restraining order that was intended to stop Musk and DOGE from accessing the Treasury Department's payment system and other data.

In his four-page order, Englemayer ruled that the defendants -- President Trump, Treasury Sec. Bessent, and the Treasury Department -- were barred from granting access to the payment system, known as the Bureau of Fiscal Services, outside of bureau employees.

He further prohibited them "from granting access to all political appointees, special government employees, and government employees detailed from an agency outside the Treasury Department, to any Treasury Department payment record, payment systems, or any other data systems maintained by the Treasury Department containing personally identifiable information and/or confidential financial information of payees."

According to Fox News, some legal experts called out the judge for his "hopelessly ambiguous and confusing" language in the order, particularly "all political appointees," which some have interpreted as including Sec. Bessent -- meaning the district judge has potentially barred the department head from doing his job.

Others have countered that Bessent was not blocked by the judge from doing his job but merely barred from allowing non-Treasury government employees and appointees, such as Musk and DOGE, from accessing the department's systems and data until a hearing scheduled for Friday.

"He needs to be impeached NOW!"

Early Sunday morning, in conjunction with sharing a rant against the ruling by conservative radio host Glenn Beck, Musk wrote on X, "A corrupt judge protecting corruption. He needs to be impeached NOW!"

In a Saturday afternoon X post, Musk said Judge Englemayer was "an activist posing as a judge," and in a separate post prior to that, asserted, "This ruling is absolutely insane!"

"How on Earth are we supposed to stop fraud and waste of taxpayer money without looking at how money is spent?" he asked rhetorically. "That’s literally impossible! Something super shady is going to protect scammers."

"Super obvious and necessary changes" for Treasury

Also on Saturday, Musk shared on X some of what DOGE and Treasury had "jointly agreed makes sense" in terms of policy changes, including requiring a "payment categorization code" on all transactions for auditing purposes, requiring a stated "rationale" for all payments, and weekly or daily updates to the "DO-NOT-PAY" of known fraudulent entities, terrorist groups, or dead individuals.

"The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE," Musk continued. "It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already!"

"Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious," he added as an example. "When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!! This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately."