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A district judge on Tuesday allowed a coalition of states to move forward with a lawsuit against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and senior government adviser Elon Musk that claims that the authority granted to Musk by President Donald Trump is unconstitutional because he was not confirmed by the Senate.

District Judge Tanya Chutkan denied a request by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to dismiss the case, writing in her <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277463/gov.uscourts.dcd.277463.93.0_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ruling</a> that the Trump administration had unsuccessfully attempted to “minimize Musk’s role” with DOGE and frame him as “a mere advisor without any formal authority.”

The ruling stems from a lawsuit <a href="https://nmdoj.gov/press-release/new-mexico-attorney-general-raul-torrez-leads-landmark-multistate-lawsuit-to-stop-elon-musks-unconstitutional-power-grab/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">filed</a> in February by a group of 14 states against Musk, DOGE, and Trump. Chutkan threw out the states’ claims against Trump, saying her court would not attempt to interfere with “the performance of his official duties” as president.

The coalition, led by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez, argued in their <a href="https://nmdoj.gov/wp-content/uploads/NM-v.-Elon-Musk-.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lawsuit</a> that Trump violated the appointments clause of the Constitution by creating a new federal department without the approval of Congress and that the president lacked authority to make “unilateral changes to existing laws concerning the structure of the Executive Branch and federal spending.”

Trump formed DOGE shortly after taking office in January. He issued an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">executive order</a> renaming the U.S. Digital Service as the U.S. DOGE Service. The order authorizes DOGE “to implement the President’s DOGE Agenda, by modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.”

In a Feb. 11 executive order, he <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-workforce-optimization-initiative/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">directed</a> agency heads to develop future hiring plans in consultation with DOGE.

Plaintiffs said the layoffs of thousands of federal workers since January and the shuttering of multiple agencies and departments have led to “mass chaos and confusion for state and local governments, federal employees, and the American people.”

They further argued Musk has accessed sensitive data and seized data systems without statutory authority.

“There is no office of the United States, other than the President, with the full power of the Executive Branch, and the sweeping authority now vested in a single unelected and unconfirmed individual is antithetical to the nation’s entire constitutional structure,” the group wrote in their lawsuit.

The Epoch Times contacted the White House and a spokesperson for Musk for comment but received no response by publication time.
<h2>Special Government Employee</h2>
In a February court filing, the White House said Musk is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and does not have the authority to make decisions.

Both DOGE and a subunit of DOGE are separate from the White House office, which employs Musk as a special government employee, White House official Joshua Fisher <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25537936/white-house-filing-in-musk-case.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">said</a> in one of the documents.

“Mr. Musk is an employee in the White House Office. He is not an employee of the U.S. DOGE Service or U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization,” Fisher wrote. “Mr Musk is not the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator.”

Fisher also said that Musk has no greater authority than other senior White House advisers and, like the other advisers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself.”

“Mr. Musk can only advise the President and communicate the President’s directives,” Fisher wrote.

In another filing, DOJ lawyers also <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25537935/doj-filing-in-musk-case.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">said</a> that Musk is employed by the White House, not DOGE, and that “he only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives, like other senior White House officials.”

The states had asked the court to declare Musk’s actions unconstitutional, bar him from issuing orders to anyone in the executive branch outside DOGE, and invalidate his previous actions.

Chutkan said in Tuesday’s ruling that the states could move forward with their legal challenge against Musk and DOGE because they made a plausible claim that Musk’s cost-cutting activities were “unauthorized by any law.”

She said the court would dismiss Trump as a defendant in the case, writing that the “President’s power to select and nominate officers under the Appointments Clause is highly discretionary and assigned squarely to the President.”

“Declaratory judgment against the President, a ‘coequal branch of government,’ pertaining to the Executive’s exclusive powers under the Constitution ‘at best creates an unseemly appearance of constitutional tension and at worst risks a violation of the constitutional separation of powers,'” Chutkan wrote.

The White House previously said that Musk has abided by “all applicable federal laws.” Trump has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07UH2FTaqE4&t=1313s">said</a> that Musk “can’t do and won’t do anything without our approval, and we’ll give him the approval where appropriate; where not appropriate, we won’t.”
<h2>Torrez Welcomes Ruling</h2>
Torrez <a href="https://nmdoj.gov/press-release/court-rejects-motion-to-dismiss-elon-musk-from-a-lawsuit-brought-by-new-mexico-and-13-states-alleging-constitutional-violations/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">welcomed</a> the ruling on Tuesday, calling it an “important milestone for preserving America’s system of checks and balances.”

“We filed this case to defend the Constitution and stop the dangerous precedent of allowing billionaire donors to dismantle federal agencies, cut vital public programs, and access sensitive state data without lawful authority,” Torrez said in a statement.

Attorneys general from the states of Arizona, Michigan, California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Vermont, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Washington, and Oregon joined New Mexico in the lawsuit.

DOGE has saved around <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250525062242/https://doge.gov/savings" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">$170 billion</a> through the termination of federal contracts, grants, and leases; programmatic changes; regulatory savings; and workforce reductions, among other things, according to its official website.

Those savings amount to around $1,056 per taxpayer, according to DOGE.

<em>Zachary Stieber contributed to this report.</em>

<em>From <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/judge-rules-lawsuit-filed-by-14-states-against-doge-and-musk-can-proceed-5864323">The Epoch Times</a></em>

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