Judge finds DOGE's shutdown of USAID likely unconstitutional

[highplainsdem]

Source: CBS

A federal judge on Tuesday found that Elon Musk and the White House's Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution when they unilaterally acted to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development.

U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of a group of more than two dozen unnamed current and former USAID employees and contractors who had challenged the efforts to shutter USAID, which were mounted by DOGE and Musk, a senior White House adviser who President Trump has said is the leader of the task force.

Chuang granted in part their request for a preliminary injunction and said in a 68-page decision that DOGE and Musk likely violated the Constitution's Appointments Clause and separation of powers.

He ordered Musk and task force employees to reinstate access to email, payment and other electronic systems to all current USAID employees and personal services contractors. The judge also prevented the Trump administration from taking any action relating to the shutdown of USAID, including placing employees on administrative leave, firing USAID workers, closing its buildings, bureaus or offices, and deleting the contents of its websites or collections.

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Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-finds-doges-usaid-shutdown-likely-unconstitutional/

[gab13by13]

1. The CR that the Timid 10 voted for is also unconstututional.

[wcmagumba]

2. They'll just ignore this judge...we are living in a pseudo dic-tatorship...nt

[2naSalit]

3. Likely?

I've heard this word too many times.

It's illegal, period.

[hlthe2b]

4. Seems to me they have already closed the building(s) and done everything she ordered them "not to do"

So now what?

[BumRushDaShow]

5. It's too late

The whole thing has been destroyed and has pretty much been dismantled. It was not just an office here in the U.S. These people worked all around the world in schools, hospitals, NGO facilities, etc. They were forced to come home with little notice and have vacated wherever they were assigned. The funding for contracts for partner organizational staff was cut off and the contracts were ended. There is food that was destined to go overseas from farmers here that is sitting rotting in warehouses.

[yellow dahlia]

6. The collateral damage of their unconsitutional and illegal actions will affect generations.

And people died!

Who will be accountable?

[BumRushDaShow]

7. I expect there may be "international" hearings in the future

which we (at this time) would never participate in.