Judge rules Trump’s USAID dismantling probably violates the Constitution
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Judge rules Trump’s USAID dismantling probably violates the Constitution

LA Times  

People rally in support of fired USAID workers during a protest Feb. 28 by the agency’s headquarters in Washington. The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development by billionaire Elon Musk’s White House advisory team probably violated the Constitution, a federal judge ruled Tuesday as he indefinitely blocked the Trump administration from making further cuts to the agency. In one of the first lawsuits targeting Musk’s DOGE team against Musk himself, U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland rejected the administration’s position that Musk is merely President Trump’s advisor. Musk’s public statements and social media posts demonstrate that he has “firm control over DOGE,” the judge found, pointing to an online post in which Musk said he had “fed USAID into the wood chipper.” The judge acknowledged that it’s likely that USAID is no longer capable of performing some of its statutorily required functions. Norm Eisen, the nonprofit’s executive chair, said the ruling is a milestone in resistance to DOGE and the first to find that Musk’s actions violate the Constitution’s appointments clause, which mandates presidential approval and Senate confirmation for certain public officials.

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