Judge Chutkan attacks against Elon Musk’s duxt

A court has granted 14 states the right to obtain large amounts of information about ELON ALMIZCLEThe Government Efficiency Department (Doge).

Newsweek He looked for comments by email on Thursday of Dege and Elon Musk.

Why does it matter

The 14 states seek to demonstrate that Dege is illegally dismissing thousands of federal workers. There have been numerous demands against Musk and Dogs since the beginning of Trump’s second mandate.

What to know

Wednesday, judge Tanya Chutkan Granted to New Mexico and 13 other states the right to obtain documents and answers to questions about Doge’s plans to cut federal agencies.

In mid -February, the general prosecutors of 14 states filed the claim in a federal court in Washington, DC, and was randomly assigned to Chutkan, who had supervised the president Donald Trump‘s Case of electoral fraud. The Department of Justice ended that case after Trump was elected president in November 2024.

The states seek a preliminary judicial order against Doge and that their actions declare illegal under the design clause, the Constitution section of the United States that requires how people must be designated for a high federal position.

In their lawsuit, the states argue that Musk was illegally designated and requested that the court stop Doge drastic cuts in the federal government. The demand establishes that Dege has disseminated “chaos and confusion” in the United States and describes Musk as “a chaos agent.”

Chutkan had denied that request on February 18, writing that he could not issue a temporary restriction order against musk and dux “without clear evidence of imminent and irreparable damage to the United States.

It is this potential evidence that states seek to obtain with a request for discovery.

New Mexico and the other 13 states led by Democrat He wrote in judicial documents that they are looking to “confirm public reports on the conduct of the accused, show the future plans of the accused and illustrate the nature and scope of the unconstitutional and illegal authority that the defendants are exercising and will continue to exercise imminently.”

They asked Chutkan to force Elon Musk and Doge to “comply with five requests for the production of documents, six interrogations, six admission requests and two statements.”

In his failure on Wednesday, Chutkan said that the dissemination application “generally refers to the behavior of Doge and Musk in four areas: (1) eliminate or reduce the size of federal agencies; (2) ending or placing federal employees on license; (3) cancel federals “.

He pointed out that the plaintiffs do not seek emails, text messages or other electronic communication between Doge staff.

Therefore, discovery requests are “limited to support your next motion for a preliminary court,” he wrote.

“The load for the defendants is minimized for the limited period of time for receptive materials, the exclusion of electronic communications, explicitly exempting President Trump from the applications, extending the time of the accused to respond” and not subject to the accused at a specific time and conditions of deposition, he wrote.

The demand has been filed by New Mexico, Arizona, Michigan, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

What people say

Democratic Attorney for New Mexico Raúl Torrez Write about Facebook On February 16: “I am leading a multiple multiple demand to stop the unconstitutional power of Elon Musk.”

“This is just the last. Since Trump assumed the position for a second mandate, I challenged the freezing of federal funds, I filed a lawsuit to protect the citizenship of birth rights and defended the funds for medical research.”

What happens later

The musk and Dux are now legally obliged to deliver the materials of the four areas of Doge work identified by the plaintiffs.

They must also answer the questions approved by the court and attend the statements, which will greatly increase the public understanding of Doge’s internal operations.

Doge and Musk can appeal to a superior federal court.