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Judge Says Musk Must Face Lawsuit Over His Role In DOGE (www.democracydocket.com)
submitted 1 year ago* by [M] to c/politics@sh.itjust.works
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The judge said Musk appears to lack the legal authority to direct alterations to the government because he is not a Senate-confirmed official and DOGE was never authorized by Congress.

“The Constitution does not permit the Executive to commandeer the entire appointments power by unilaterally creating a federal agency pursuant to Executive Order and insulating its principal officer from the Constitution as an ‘advisor’ in name only,” Chutkan wrote.

Chutkan said plaintiffs have also sufficiently alleged that they were harmed by DOGE’s “unauthorized access” to “private and proprietary information” and other actions.

Another source if you don't like this one: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/a-judge-refuses-to-toss-states-lawsuit-against-elon-musk-and-doge

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago

let's skip that and send him right to jail, then litigate the specifics of his many many crimes. Nobody is in doubt he has committed them, even him, who claimed during the 2024 campaign that if tRump lost Elon himself was "completely fucked". The only way out of this shitnado is fast-tracking the courts, their strategy of move fast and break America that they have on loan from Silicon Valley vulture capital. Time to move fast and jail scum.

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