Elon Musk and his DOGE team, tasked by President Trump with slashing the federal budget, faced a temporary restraining order preventing access to U.S. Treasury payment systems and data. This followed a lawsuit by 19 state attorneys general alleging President Trump violated constitutional law by granting Musk unfettered access. Musk criticized the ruling and called for the judge's impeachment, while Vice President JD Vance defended the executive branch's authority. Legal scholars emphasize the judiciary's historical role in checking executive overreach.
Musk and his special government employees, who are part of his DOGE initiative, are tasked by President Donald Trump with finding ways to slash the federal budget , reduce the federal workforce and eliminate as many federal regulations and agencies as possible. Elon Musk lashed out at a federal judge over an order that temporarily restricts the billionaire and his DOGE team from accessing U.S. Department of Treasury payment systems and data.
Elon Musk has called to impeach a federal judge in New York, Paul Engelmayer, over an order that temporarily restricts the tech centi-billionaire and his DOGE team from accessing U.S. Department of Treasury payment systems and sensitive data.
The attorneys general from 19 states argued in their complaint that President Trump failed to"faithfully execute the laws enacted by Congress," in giving Musk and his team unparalleled access to the treasury's computer systems and taxpayers' sensitive data stored or processed in them. New Jersey Attorney General Platkin said, via an e-mailed statement,"We absolutely expect the defendants to comply with the order, which the court issued in light of the egregiously illegal actions at issue and the enormous risk they pose to cybersecurity and privacy. Our nation is built on the rule of law, and we intend to pursue it to the maximum extent to protect our residents."
She noted that"centuries of precedent establish the role of the courts in checking overreach by the executive branch," including cases like, where the U.S. Supreme Court refused to let President Harry S. Truman take over U.S. steel mills during the Korean War.
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