- Judge Chuang stopped Musk’s efforts to shut down USAID.
- Chuang says that Musk’s actions violated the US Constitution.
- Usaid operations disrupted, global relief efforts in chaos.
A federal judge on Tuesday barred billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency from taking any more steps to shut down the US agency for international development, saying that his efforts to close the foreign aid agency violated the US Constitution.
In an initial judgment, American District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland ordered Musk, a prominent advisor to President Donald Trump, and the agency Musk also included thousands of people to restore access to USAID’s computer system for its direct and contract workers, including thousands, including thousands.
The ruling current and former USAID came in response to the trial, one of the current is currently pending on the rapid disruption of Washington’s primary humanitarian aid agency.
“Today’s decision is an important victory against Elon Musk and his Dogi attack on USAID, the US government and the Constitution,” Norm Esen, executive president of the State Democracy Defenders Fund, said, a lawyer, a lawyer who represents 26 anonymous plagues in the case.
Trump told that Fox News His administration will appeal for the decision.
“I guarantee you that we will appeal to it. We have evil judges who are destroying our country,” Trump said at the ingraham angle “.
Trump, a Republican, ordered a 90-day freeze of all American foreign aid on its first day at the White House and whether the aid programs were aligned with their administration policy.
Soon after, Musk and Dogi gained access to USAID payment and email systems, freeze many of its payments and told about their employees that they were being kept on leave. On 3 February, Musk wrote on X that he “weekend was spent feeding USAID in a wooden chip.”
In his February 13 trial, the plaintiff claimed that Musk seized control of USAID and effectively worked as an officer of America, violating the need of the Constitution to be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
He said that by effectively adding an agency established by the Congress, Musk and Dogi had overcome the right to the executive branch of the government.
Chuang, appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama, agreed that Musk and Dogi “violated the Constitution of the United States in many ways, and these works damaged not only the plaintiff, but also the public interest.”
Musk and Dogi argued in the court filing that Musk’s role was strict as Trump’s advisor, and the agency officials, Dogi, were responsible for the action challenged by the plaintiff. Chuang found that Musk and Dogi used direct control over the agency.
In addition to ordering them to restore the computer access to the employees, they stopped them from disclosing any sensitive employee information.
Chuang did not block the termination of majority of USAID contracts and large scale of personnel, which have abolished agency operations worldwide and thrown global human relief efforts into anarchy. They found that while the possibility of the termination of those termination violated the constitution, they were approved by government officials who have not been nominated in the trial.
State Secretary Marco Rubio said last week that the administration was scrapping more than 80% of the USAID programs and was cutting most of its employees.
In a separate case brought by USAID contractors, US District Judge Amir Ali in Washington last week ordered the administration to immediately issue the contractors for previous work to issue frozen payments, but stopped it less from ordering the contracts to restore the contracts.
The administration failed to pay the entire amount of the first batch of Ali before the payment of March 10, with a total of $ 671 million. This has cited the need to review the payment personally. On Monday, Ali ordered the government to provide a program for when he will make all the previous payments, which is close to $ 2 billion.
