The order comes from a suit by 14 State Attorney general’s who are seeking inside data on the DOGE consulting group that seems to be welding Trump admin MASS power over Governmemnt employee ‘s jobs and lives unchecked ….
These actions effect jobs across the country say the Attornet general who see harm to their states workers and economies….
The judge is reaching for the DOGE employees themselves….
The Musk group have come under a microscope from several different courts as legal effort mount against this audits and and resulting MASS job and program cuts atre handed down against the agencies Congress directs to take actions and funds for operating…
A federal judge has ordered that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency turn over a wide array of records and answer questions about plans it crafted to downsize federal agencies, fire employees and suspend federal contracts.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s order Wednesday is a win for a group of 14 Democratic state attorneys general who are suing President Donald Trump, Musk and DOGE, arguing that Musk has unconstitutionally wielded immense power in ways that are damaging their states. Any information the states glean as a result of Chutkan’s decision will help her determine whether to block Musk and DOGE’s government activities altogether.
It’s the first time a judge has ordered Musk to produce documents in a court challenge to his aggressive campaign to slash and reshape the federal bureaucracy. Chutkan indicated her order was primarily aimed at identifying the DOGE officials Musk has embedded across the government and details about the “parameters of DOGE’s and Musk’s authority.”
Chutkan, an appointee of President Barack Obama, gave Musk and DOGE three weeks to comply with the so-called discovery requests.
She turned down the states’ request to force sworn testimony at this stage of the case. And she emphasized that Trump himself does not have to respond to the written questions or document demands.
The Trump administration has tried to resist legal discovery concerning Musk’s activities by describing him as a senior White House adviser. Citing executive privilege, all recent administrations have resisted efforts to force the president’s closest advisers to testify or turn over evidence in connection with court proceedings….
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Last month, another federal judge in Washington ordered DOGE and three federal agencies to produce officials to submit to questioning under oath about the cost-cutting operation’s access to data at federal agencies. But that judge did not order Musk to do anything, and he let the government decide which officials will appear.
On Monday, yet another judge in D.C. ruled that DOGE will have to pore through thousands of pages of documents to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request from a liberal watchdog group….
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Trump is sure to try to envoke ‘executive privilege ‘ in trying to fight the judges request for the workings of DOGE, which is NOT a offical government entity….
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