Obama judge refuses to block DOGE from firing deep-staters, disappointing blue-state AGs
Despite denying her fellow travelers' motion, Judge Chutkan joined them in concern-mongering about Musk's influence.
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Democratic attorneys general from 14 states
filed a lawsuit last week seeking to immediately bar the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency from firing or furloughing deep-staters, canceling government contracts, accessing sensitive agency data, and "taking steps to dismantle agencies."
The blue-state AGs, who accused President Donald Trump of violating the Constitution's Appointments Clause, made their bid in a sympathetic court to a sympathetic judge —
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, a leftist Obama appointee who presided over Trump's election obstruction case, handed down sentences to
Jan. 6 protesters far in excess of prosecutors' requests, and vigorously fought the first Trump administration.
Chutkan surprised the Democratic AGs Tuesday by denying their motion for a temporary restraining order against the DOGE. Chutkan did, however, concern-monger about Elon Musk's supposed "unchecked authority."
"Plaintiffs legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked authority of an unelected individual and an entity that was not created by Congress and over which it has no oversight,"
wrote Chutkan.
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When highlighting instances where the DOGE has worked to maximize government efficiency and remedy bureaucratic bloat, the Democratic AGs appeared especially bitter about the Trump administration's efforts to clean up the
U.S. Agency for International Development.
Why would state AGs be concerned about "foreign aid" unless they are in on the take ??? <
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Joshua Fisher, director of the White House Office of Administration, countered the claims about the nature of Musk's role in a court filing Monday,
indicating that Musk is both a senior adviser to the president and a non-career special government employee — like
Anita Dunn, who operated in a similar capacity in the Biden White House.
"In his role as a Senior Advisor to the President, Mr. Musk has no greater authority than other senior White House advisors," wrote Fisher. "Like other senior White House advisors, Mr. Musk has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself. Mr. Musk can only advise the President and communicate the President's directives."
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"An appointment clause claim is entirely about somebody occupying an office and using the trappings of that office to wield sovereign power," said Harry Graver, a DOJ attorney. "Nowhere have my friends offered a shred of anything, nor could they, to show that
Elon Musk has any formal or actual authority to make any government decision himself."
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Despite denying her fellow travelers' motion, Judge Chutkan joined them in concern-mongering about Musk's influence.
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Note Musk pose in the photo. Expect now the Left to claim he his posing as a religious messiah.