The judge seems to be inclined to refuse the request to block the mass shots of DOGES and access data

A federal judge in Washington seemed to be inclined on Monday to refuse an urgent application for temporary blocking by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, to relieve employees or to access sensitive records in half a dozen federal departments.

After an almost one-hour virtual hearing, the US district judge Tanya Chutkan said that she intends to issue an application from 14 General Prosecutor within 24 hours in order to issue a temporary injunction, the DOGE from redeeming employees or access to data from the departments for education, work, health and human services, energy, transport, trade and office for personnel management as part of President Donald Trump’s promise of campaign, to reduce the federal government.

The 14 states submitted a federal action on Thursday, in which Musk’s “expansive authority” confirms the US’s appointment clause from the Senate.

Judge Chutkan describes the states’ application for a temporary injunction as “prophylactic” and expressed skepticism to make a broad achievement, while the plaintiffs fought to prove concrete damage that resulted from the behavior of Doge.

“The court cannot act on the basis of the media reports. We cannot do that,” said Chutkan. “The things I hear are indeed supervised and worrying, but I have to have a recording, and I have to find the facts before I exhibit something.”

The judge said that the states would have to prove a threat from “extreme” and “immediately impending damage” in order to provide such an urgent temporary injunction that “cannot be reversed” – and although “the rehire -” – Rehire would have to crawl. “Disappeared employees may be difficult and challenging, it can be done.

“I’ve not seen it yet,” she said of the damage that the plaintiffs claim.

If she denies the injunction, Judge Chutkan, who previously supervised Trump’s criminal interference, could temporarily give Musk a green light in order to continue to settle into the federal government and implement her large-scale cuts.

While Richter Chutkan seemed inclined to refuse to inquire from the plaintiffs, she strongly questioned why the state lawyers seemed to have only a few details on overall behavior, including the number of the entire federal government so far.

“The dismissal of thousands of federal employees is not a small or common thing. You couldn’t confirm that?” Chutkan asked the lawyers. “I think it will be very relevant for me to know whether thousands of federal employees were terminated on Friday.”

Chutkan noticed that what she called Doges “unpredictable and scattering” tactics that prosecutors made more difficult to prove a concrete, immediate damage – even though it recognized the seriousness of the public prosecutor’s allegations.

“Doge does not seem to move in any way in any way,” said Chutkan. “This is essentially a private person who provides an organization that is not a federal authority to have access to the entire functions of the federal government, fire, attitude, contract, contract, contract, conclusion of the contract without supervision of the congress.”

The lawsuit of the states is one of at least 73 suits submitted in office in his first month.

In the past week, the courts decided that Doge temporarily divided information and payment systems for the sensitive finance department. that agencies that maintain data for public health must restore their websites and databases. that the Foreign Ministry is the implementation of Trump’s 90-day freezing for foreign help and disassembly of the consumer financial agency; And that the National Institutes of Health neither can reduce its indirect financing of research, nor can the Federal Government retain federal funding because a health company or a specialist offers a minor -known medical service to a minor.

While the Trump government achieved some victories in court last week -including decisions that make it possible to continue to access some sensitive records and to give a green light for the unexplored cytout of the federal government -the President and his allies have and his allies Vice President JD Vance began to float the idea of ​​pushing back to the dishes.

“Anyone who saves their country does not violate a law,” Trump wrote about the weekend on social media.

Over the weekend, the Trump administration has the legal setbacks that the President confronted with the Supreme Court in an application to the Supreme Court in the earliest days of its administration. “

“The order of the district court illustrates a more comprehensive, weekly trend in which President Trump’s initiatives persuaded the district courts to enact tros that enter a host of the President’s article II powers,” wrote Attorney General Sarah Harris.

The quick legal dispute continues with at least eight separate cases, which are intended to hold judicial hearings this week.