- Judge Chung stopped Musk’s efforts to close USAID.
- Chung says Musk’s actions have possibly violated the US Constitution.
- USAID’s operations disrupted, global relief efforts in chaos.
On Tuesday, a federal judge barred the billionaire Elon Musk and the government’s performance from taking further steps to close the US agency for international development, saying their efforts to close the foreign aid agency had violated the US Constitution.
In a preliminary decision, US District Judge Theodore Chung ordered President Donald Trump’s key adviser in Maryland, and the agency’s Musk ordered her direct and resettlement of USAID’s computer system for contract employees, including thousands of people.
The decision comes in response to the legalization of current and former USAID employees, which is currently pending for the speeding of Washington’s basic humanitarian aid agency.
“Today’s decision is an important victory against Elon Musk and USAID, the US government and the Constitution against its dodge attacks,” said a lawyer, a lawyer representing 26 anonymous defendants, in this case, the Executive Chair of the State Democracy Defense Fund.
Trump told Fox News Their administration will appeal the decision.
“I guarantee you that we will appeal it,” Trump said on “Angarham Angle”. We have bullying judges who are destroying our country. “
The Republican, a Republican, in his first day, ordered the freezing of all US foreign aid for 90 days and reviewing whether the relief programs were in harmony with their administration’s policy.
Shortly afterwards, Musk and Dodge accessed USAID’s payment and email system, frozen many of its payments and told most of its staff that they were being kept on leave. On February 3, Musk wrote on the X that he had “spent the weekend and feeding Yos Aid in a wooden chapper.”
The plaintiffs claimed in their case on February 13 that the Musk took control of the USAID and, in violation of the constitution, worked effectively as an US officer to nominate such officers by the president and confirm it by the Senate.
He said that an agency formed by the Congress effectively, by effectively embraced, Musk and Dodge have exceeded the government’s executive branch.
Chung, who was appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama, agreed that Musk and Dodge “have” potentially violated the United States’ constitution in a number of ways, and these measures have not only damaged the plaintiff but also the public interest. “
Kasturi and Dodge argued in the court jurisdiction that Musk’s role was strictly as Trump’s adviser, and that agency officials, who are not docks, were responsible for the actions challenged by the plaintiffs. Chung found that Kasturi and Dodge have used direct control over the agency.
In addition to ordering employees to restore access to the computer, it prevented them from disclosing any sensitive information from the employees.
Chung did not stop the mass abolition of most USAID contracts and personnel, who have abolished most of the agency’s works around the world and put global humanitarian aid efforts into chaos. He found that when the suspension was possibly violated the constitution, they were approved by government officials whose names are not in legal action.
Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio said last week that the administration was eliminating 80 % of USAID programs and cutting most of its staff.
In a separate case brought by USAID contractors, US District Judge Aamir Ali in Washington ordered the administration last week to issue a freezing payment to the contractors for past work, but did not refrain from ordering to restore the contracts.
The administration failed to pay the first batch of ALI’s order, up to a deadline on March 10. It cited the need to review the payments individually. On Monday, Ali ordered the government to provide the schedule of when he would make appropriate payments to them and all other past, which is close to $ 2 billion in total.
