Whether the President and his de facto No.2 now respect a growing pile of legal rulings that are stacking up in favour of their critics, may determine the future of America’s experiment with democracy.
Early on Saturday, US District Judge Paul Engelmayer delivered the latest blow to Musk’s efforts to seize unprecedented power. Fully seven days after DOGE employees secured access to the US Treasury’s central payment system, which oversees the disbursal of trillions of dollars in government expenditure, Engelmayer issued a temporary restraining order designed to stop Musk in his tracks, at least for now.
The ruling denied DOGE any further access to Treasury Department records that include the social security numbers of millions of Americans (equivalent to UK national insurance numbers), and also blocked access to bank account details, as well as records of tax refunds and assistance payments made by the government to families and individuals.
A worker removes the US Agency for International Development sign on their headquarters after Elon Musk shut the agency down (Photo: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty)On Friday, another judgment sought to hamper Musk’s efforts, approved by Trump, to shutter the US Agency for International Development, the world’s single-largest donor of humanitarian and developmental assistance funding.Hours after Musk had boasted of “feeding USAID to the wood chipper”, Judge Carl Nichols issued another temporary order to stop the government from placing nearly 10,000 USAID employees on leave. The ruling also sought to stop the travel orders issued to the agency’s American staff overseas who had been told immediately to down tools and return home.
Other judgments seeking to tie the President’s hands include a ruling temporarily blocking Musk’s “Fork in the Road” e-mail.
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Read MoreLess than a month after he came to power, Trump and his inner circle already find themselves at a crossroads. Do they adhere to time-honoured principles and respect the courts as a co-equal branch of the government alongside the executive and the legislature? Or, as Musk is already indicating, do they power ahead with their blitzkrieg of activity, the courts be damned?
Does Trump agree with him? The country’s entire future now hinges on the answer.
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