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Nonilex<p>The order by US Dist Judge <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chutkan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chutkan</span></a> prevents—for now—the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> from ending the $20B <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/grant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grant</span></a> program.</p><p>Chutkan's order also blocks <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Citibank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Citibank</span></a>, which holds the money on behalf of the EPA, from transferring the money back to the govt or anyone.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateUnitedFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateUnitedFund</span></a> &amp; other groups sued <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s EPA, its admin <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LeeZeldin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeeZeldin</span></a> &amp; Citibank, saying they had illegally denied the groups access to $14B awarded last year through the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GreenhouseGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenhouseGas</span></a> Reduction Fund, commonly referred to as a “green bank."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>Two lawsuits could provide further insight into DOGE<br><a href="https://www.muskwatch.com/i/159032671/two-lawsuits-could-provide-further-insight-into-doge" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">muskwatch.com/i/159032671/two-</span><span class="invisible">lawsuits-could-provide-further-insight-into-doge</span></a></p><p>"US District Judge Tanya <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Chutkan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chutkan</span></a> ordered <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> and his <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> collaborators to provide records and testimony about its plans...seeks to establish the “parameters of DOGE’s and Musk’s authority.”</p><p>...US District Judge Christopher Cooper requiring DOGE to expeditiously process Freedom of Information Act requests"</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Lawsuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lawsuit</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/FOIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOIA</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chutkan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chutkan</span></a> rejected the states' request to obtain sworn testimony through depositions, &amp; said her order does not apply to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>.</p><p>Republican &amp; Democratic admins have long resisted efforts to force top WH advisers to provide court testimony or info they consider privileged.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> have until April 2 to comply w/Chutkan's order.</p><p>The lawsuit sought to bar DOGE from accessing information systems at several government departments &amp; firing federal employees or putting them on leave.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“The court is not convinced, but that is a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> issue appropriate for resolution after fulsome briefing.…At this stage, it is sufficient that plaintiffs' discovery requests intend to reveal the scope of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a>'s &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>'s authority,” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chutkan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chutkan</span></a> wrote.</p><p>Chutkan limited requests to material concerning agencies, employees, contracts, grants, federal funding, legal agreements, databases &amp; data management systems that involve or engage w/the 14 states as well as entities they operate or fund.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The states argued <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> violated the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> by wielding <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> only ofcls confirmed by the US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Senate</span></a> can exercise under the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AppointmentsClause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AppointmentsClause</span></a>, &amp; sought the materials through…discovery.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chutkan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chutkan</span></a> said her order focused mainly on who at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> was making cost-cutting decisions &amp; how far they could go.</p><p>"Defendants argue that the 'inner workings of government' are immaterial to an Appointments Clause claim,” she wrote.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kakistocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>A US judge has ordered <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> &amp; his Department of Government *Efficiency* to turn over a variety of records &amp; answer questions describing their efforts to slash federal spending.</p><p>Wednesday night's decision by US District Judge Tanya <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chutkan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chutkan</span></a> in Washington, DC, came in a lawsuit by 14 Democratic state attorneys general against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>, DOGE &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kakistocracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-orders-doge-musk-produce-cost-cutting-records-2025-03-13/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/legal/us-judge-ord</span><span class="invisible">ers-doge-musk-produce-cost-cutting-records-2025-03-13/</span></a></p>