The Wave of Court rulings just Keep Growing……
And now we see some DOGE workers summoned to Court in Federal Union Suit action….
The secretive actions are being peeled back….
The isn’t Twitter….
This is the ‘People’s Governmemnt’
A federal judge has ordered Trump administration officials involved in Elon Musk’s “opaque” Department of Government Efficiency to testify under oath in one of the sprawling lawsuits seeking to block DOGE’s access to sensitive government databases.
U.S. District Judge John Bates agreed Thursday that “very limited” efforts to question officials connected to DOGE would help clarify what exactly the group is doing and whether it poses the risks to sensitive data that government employees fear. Bates’ order will allow unions and liberal groups suing to question four officials: one from DOGE’s White House headquarters and one each from the Labor Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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While the bureaucracy-slashing DOGE effort has sparked more than a dozen lawsuits, the order from Bates is the first that would force people involved in the project to answer questions from lawyers outside the government…
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Neither Bates nor the unions and liberal groups that brought the suit specified which particular DOGE members will be questioned under oath. They will be selected by the Trump administration, but must be knowledgeable about the data security and access issues within the agencies at the center of the suit.
So far, the only insight about DOGE’s operations inside agencies like Labor and HHS have come from carefully crafted written statements filed in court by DOGE allies embedded across the government, and a handful of agency officials who work alongside them. Bates pointed to those statements as a reason to allow the depositions.
“It would be strange to permit defendants to submit evidence that addresses critical factual issues and proceed to rule on a preliminary injunction motion without permitting plaintiffs to explore those factual issues through very limited discovery,” Bates wrote.
The Justice Department objected to any officials being questioned at this stage of the suit, but the judge said it was fair that the unions be given a chance to gather facts that would support their case…
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Bates denied their emergency effort to block DOGE’s access altogether, but agreed he had concerns about the operation and said he was open to demanding more details as the lawsuit advanced…
The People Carrying Out Musk’s Plans at DOGE….
The New York Times identified 49 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few weeks has radically upended federal agencies. Few members have formal Washington experience. Many are software engineers. All seem to have a clear mandate: Shrink and disrupt the federal government.
Mr. Musk’s team has taken aim at more than 20 agencies while gaining access to sensitive government data systems. But the full extent of its reach or ambitions is unclear.
Much of the team’s operations are opaque, and most of its personnel have not been disclosed by the Trump administration, and it is unclear exactly how large the operation is. Through executive order, President Trump moved the team from the Office of Management and Budget, where it had been housed as the United States Digital Service since its founding, into the White House — a transition that effectively shielded its work from open records laws that could give the public insight into its operations.
The list below includes some of Mr. Musk’s allies; engineers — many of whom are young men — with backgrounds in artificial intelligence; former employees; and others who have helped the operation. Several have recently deleted their social media accounts after their names appeared in news reports….
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The NY Times is seeking MORE ‘Data’ on Musk’s consultants…..
Do you have information to share about DOGE? The New York Times wants to hear from you.
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