A federal judge on Tuesday declined to request Elon Musk’s Government Efficiency (DOGE) to fire employees or block access to sensitive data at multiple federal agencies.
US District Judge Tanya Chukkan from 14 Democratic state attorney generals blocks Doge staff from purge employees and access sensitive data systems in the labor, labor, health, welfare, commercial and energy sectors Denied the request to issue a temporary restraining order. and the Bureau of Transportation and Personnel Management. The decision is a blow to Democratic officials who want to stop President Donald Trump’s efforts to settle the federal workforce. (Related: Andy McCarthy scoffs at Dem Ags, where Trump’s doge claims he has no right to do the job)
“In these circumstances, it must be uncontroversial that this court acts within its power,” Chatkan wrote to her. Arbitration. “Therefore, we cannot issue a TRO as broad as the plaintiffs’ requests, especially without clear evidence of impending, irreparable harm to these plaintiffs. The current records do not meet that standard. ”
TRO is a temporary restraining order.
Can someone start a lawsuit counter?
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– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2025
The Attorney General sued Musk last Thursday, claiming that his involvement in the federal government violated the constitutional appointment clause. Chutkan said the plaintiff “supposes a claim of a fadable appointment clause,” but her opinion “starts and ends with irreparable harm.”
Submitted by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Trez Litigationwho has described the role of Musk in the Trump administration as a “threat to democracy” and a “illegal delegation of enforcement.”
The judge said that the plaintiffs had irreparable harm defined as “certain and great, practical, not theoretical, beyond restoration, and so pressing that there was a clear and current need for relief.” He said he failed to show. She added that “potential of irreparable harm” is legally insufficient.
“The court recognizes that Doge’s unpredictable actions have resulted in considerable uncertainty and confusion for the plaintiffs and many of their agencies and residents,” writes Chutkan. “However, the “possibility” that the defendant could act in a way that would injure the plaintiff is “not sufficient.”
The ruling follows Monday’s hearing, where Chukkan reportedly reportedly had a tendency to deny the Democratic Attorney General’s case, saying, “It’s a preventative toro, and that’s not allowed.”
Attorney generals in California, Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Rhode Island and Rhode Island.
The lawsuit is one of several legal challenges against DOGE in federal courts nationwide that aims to fire employees, access confidential data or limit or block task force authority. .
Separately, US District Judge Rudolf Moss rejected Monday’s motion to block Doge’s access to U.S. Department of Education’s student borrower data.
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