- Judge Chuang blocks Musk's efforts to close Usaid.
- Musk's actions probably violated the constitution of the United States, says Chuang.
- USAID operations interrupted, global help efforts in chaos.
A federal judge blocked the billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday and the Government's efficiency department to take more measures to close the United States Agency for International Development, saying that its efforts to close the foreign aid agency probably violated the constitution of the United States.
In a preliminary ruling, the United States District Judge, Theodore Chuang in Maryland, ordered Musk, a key advisor to President Donald Trump and the Musk Spearrens agency to restore access to USAID computer systems for their direct and hired employees, including thousands who were permission positions.
The ruling occurred in response to a demand from the current and previous employees of USAID, one of the various currently pending on the rapid dismantling of the main humanitarian aid agency in Washington.
“Today's decision is an important victory against Elon Musk and his Juge attack against Usaid, the United States government and the Constitution,” said Norm Eisen, executive president of the State Democracy Defensor Fund, a lawyer who represents the 26 anonymous plaintiffs in the case.
Trump told Fox News His administration would appeal the ruling.
“I guarantee that we will appeal. We have dishonest judges who are destroying our country,” Trump said on “Ingraham's angle.”
Trump, a Republican, on his first day back at the White House, ordered a 90 -day freezing of all foreign aid of the United States and a review of whether aid programs were aligned with the policy of his administration.
Shortly after that, Musk and Dege obtained access to USAID's payment and email systems, froze many of their payments and told much of their staff that they were being licensed. On February 3, Musk wrote in X that “the weekend had spent feeding USAID in the wooden splinter.”
The plaintiffs said in their February 13 demand that Musk took advantage of the USAID control and actually acted as an officer of the United States, violating the requirement of the Constitution that said officers are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
They said that Musk and Dege had exceeded the authority of the government's executive branch, by effectively gutting an agency established by Congress.
Chuang, who was appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama, agreed that Musk and Dogs “probably violated the constitution of the United States in multiple ways, and that these actions damaged not only the plaintiffs, but also the public interest.”
Musk and Dege argued in the judicial presentations that Musk's role is strictly as a Trump advisor, and that agency's officials did not doge, were responsible for the actions challenged by the plaintiffs. Chuang discovered that Musk and Dege had effectively exercised direct control over the agency.
In addition to ordering them to restore access to the employee computer, they were forbidden to reveal any confidential employee information.
Chuang did not blocked the massive terminations of most USAID contracts and personnel, which have finished much of the agency's operations worldwide and threw global humanitarian aid efforts into chaos. He discovered that although these endings probably violated the Constitution, they had been approved by government officials who are not appointed in the lawsuit.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said last week that the administration was discarding more than 80% of USAID programs and cutting most of his staff.
In a separate lawsuit filed by USAID contractors, the American district judge Amir Ali in Washington ordered the administration last week that immediately releases frozen payments to contractors for past works, but could not order to restore contracts.
The Administration did not pay the total amount of the first batch of payments that ALI ordered, for a total of around $ 671 million, on a deadline of March 10. He has cited the need to individually review payments. On Monday, Ali ordered the Government to provide a schedule of when they would make those other defeated payments, which total about $ 2 billion.
