DOGE, Elon Musk Must Hand Over Documents, Answer Written Questions, Says Judge

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The judge also denied a request to have DOGE employees sit for depositions.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk must give records to attorneys general that sued them, in addition to answering written questions, a federal judge ruled on March 12.

The U.S. government must give New Mexicoโ€™s attorney general and 12 other state prosecutors who sued it numerous documents, including those that DOGE and Musk created or edited regarding the termination of federal workers, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said.

Chutkan largely granted discovery requests from the attorneys general, who say that the actions by Musk as DOGEโ€™s public face are unconstitutional in part because he was not confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

After the judge in February turned down their bid to block DOGE from accessing government data, the attorneys general said Chutkan should grant expedited discovery so they could confirm that Musk and DOGE โ€œare directing actions within federal agencies that have profoundly harmed the States and will continue to harm themโ€ as they prepare a motion for a preliminary injunction.

Government lawyers opposed the motion. โ€œThe material the States seek is not relevant to their claims; nor should the Court require such discovery on an expedited timeframe before it has even had a chance to adjudicate the Governmentโ€™s motion to dismiss,โ€ the lawyers said.

Chutkan said she was granting expedited discovery because it was โ€œreasonable and necessary to evaluate Plaintiffsโ€™ request for injunctive relief.โ€

She turned aside government arguments that expediting discovery to support the forthcoming injunction motion was not a sufficient reason to speed up discovery.

โ€œCourts in this jurisdiction … have consistently found that preliminary injunction proceedings are exactly the kind of circumstance warranting expedited discovery,โ€ Chutkan said.

The case centers on DOGEโ€™s authority or purported lack thereof, and whether it has been working with or directing agencies to cut personnel and agreements.

In one filing in the case, a White House official said that Musk, a special adviser to President Donald Trump, was not a DOGE employee and did not have the authority to make decisions. Trump later said that Musk was in charge of DOGE, while former consultant Amy Gleason was named as its acting administrator.

Byย Zachary Stieber

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