The judge said Musk appears to lack the legal authority to direct alterations to the government because he is not a Senate-confirmed official and DOGE was never authorized by Congress.
“The Constitution does not permit the Executive to commandeer the entire appointments power by unilaterally creating a federal agency pursuant to Executive Order and insulating its principal officer from the Constitution as an ‘advisor’ in name only,” Chutkan wrote.
Chutkan said plaintiffs have also sufficiently alleged that they were harmed by DOGE’s “unauthorized access” to “private and proprietary information” and other actions.
Another source if you don’t like this one: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/a-judge-refuses-to-toss-states-lawsuit-against-elon-musk-and-doge
The states had asked Chutkan to temporarily block DOGE from accessing any data systems or terminating any federal employees. But the judge denied that request on Feb. 18. She found that there were legitimate questions about Musk’s authority but said there weren’t grounds to justify a temporary restraining order.
Well, at least there were no repercussions from not putting a restraining order on the activity that was clearly illegal. /s The damage has already been done. It’s great that this may provide some accountability but I won’t hold my breath waiting for the wealthy to face consequences in the USA.
Ruin. Him.
No wrist-slaps for fash trash.
You can’t ruin the wealthy while the most bribable president in history is sitting in the oval office. The most you can do is transfer a chunk of his wealth to Trump. At least, that’s the most you can do while working within the system…
The richest man in the world being held accountable, in the US of all places?
It’s a silly idea, I like it, but it’s silly.
The Orange TurdNugget will either put a stop to this, just like he has to his own trials for his own treason from the stolen documents debacle.
Or he’ll pardon Felon Mucks if anything comes from it.
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If it’s a lawsuit instead of a criminal trial, it can’t be disrupted by prosecutor corruption or pardoned away. It also can’t result in jail time though. That will only be possible once Trump’s goons are no longer running the Dept of Justice.
Nice one, I didn’t know that. Ty.
LaWsUiTs. The man committed treason. Jail at worst. Death at best.
Something to note is that civil rulings can’t be pardoned.
Thanks for that
Hear, hear!
let’s skip that and send him right to jail, then litigate the specifics of his many many crimes. Nobody is in doubt he has committed them, even him, who claimed during the 2024 campaign that if tRump lost Elon himself was “completely fucked”. The only way out of this shitnado is fast-tracking the courts, their strategy of move fast and break America that they have on loan from Silicon Valley vulture capital. Time to move fast and jail scum.
Too bad they can’t do future dated pardon /s. They should stall the suit until there’s a different president.
