Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare rebuke of President Trump on Tuesday amid an escalating battle between the executive and judicial branches of government over the president’s powers.

Musk's response comes shortly after a judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate scores of probationary workers fired using DOGE's blunt methods. In his ruling, Northern District of California Judge William Alsup called the government's claims that the layoffs were performance-based a "sham to try to avoid statutory requirements."