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Acourt has temporarily blocked a ruling from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan regarding the funding of former President Joe Biden's climate programs. The D.C. Court of Appeals halted the judge's Tuesday ruling that ordered Citibank to release billions of dollars in green bank grants as part of Biden's 2022 climate, tax and health care bill. Why It Matters The court's ruling is the latest development in an ongoing fight as President Donald Trump attempts to throw out Biden's climate and energy measures, and replace it with his cost-cutting and pro-coal agenda. Chutkan oversaw the president's now dismissed federal 2020 election...

A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration in the case that alleged fraud in a Biden-era clean energy program, unfreezing roughly $20 billion in funding meant to support projects like new solar energy arrays and efficiency upgrades for small businesses. Judge Tanya Chutkan on Tuesday ruled in favor of the eight nonprofits that sued Citibank and the Trump administration, finding that the Environmental Protection Agency unlawfully terminated the program. Chutkan ordered the congressionally appropriated funds to be unfrozen at 2 p.m. Thursday and distributed to the nonprofits they were originally intended for. The Trump administration said it will appeal....

Judge Tanya Chutkan The DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday temporarily blocked Judge Tanya Chutkan’s order doxxing DOGE workers. Earlier this month Judge Chutkan demanded Elon Musk and DOGE turn over sensitive documents and data within 21 days—all to appease a coalition of Democrat state attorneys general. Chutkan’s order mandated that DOGE disclose sensitive information and internal documents concerning employees, contracts, and federal engagements directly linked with states participating in the lawsuit. According to the ruling: Plaintiffs’ Discovery Requests shall be limited to information and materials regarding agencies, employees, contracts, grants, federal funding, legal agreements, databases, or data management...

Attorney General Pam Bondi launched a forceful attack on members of the federal judiciary Sunday, accusing judges of overstepping their authority and obstructing President Donald Trump’s policy agenda. During a Fox News interview on Sunday Morning Futures, Bondi said recent rulings against key administration initiatives reflect a judiciary that is “out of control.” Bondi specifically criticized federal judges who have paused or struck down Trump-era policies, including deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, environmental funding rollbacks, and bans affecting transgender military service. “This is an out-of-control judge, a federal judge, trying to control our entire foreign policy, and he cannot...

Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, ruled that Lee Zeldin cannot claw back the money currently being sheltered at Citibank for 8 different ‘green’ nonprofits. The $20 billion sitting at Citibank will not be restored to the 8 nonprofits yet. Judge Chutkan’s TRO temporarily stopped Lee Zeldin from reclaiming the funds. “When the court asked EPA to proffer evidence justifying its decision given the terms of the agreement, its only response was to refer to the termination letter, which gave no legal justification for the termination,” the judge wrote.

An Obama-appointed federal judge ordered Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to reveal its plans to downsize the government and to identify all its employees, among other actions. The directives from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan come as 14 Democratic state attorneys general are suing President Donald Trump, Musk and DOGE, arguing that Musk is unconstitutionally wielding power, according to Politico. Chutkan gave Musk and DOGE three weeks to produce the information, which ultimately will help her decide whether to block DOGE’s operations altogether, it added.

Washington -- The White House says billionaire Elon Musk is not technically part of the Department of Government Efficiency team that is sweeping through federal agencies but is rather a senior advisor to President Donald Trump. Musk’s exact role could be key in the legal fight over DOGE’s access to government data as the Trump administration moves to lay off thousands of federal workers. Defining him as an advisor rather than the administrator in charge of day-to-day operations at DOGE could help the administration as it pushes back against a lawsuit arguing Musk has too much power for someone who...

A federal judge on Tuesday declined to block Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data or firing federal employees. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that plaintiffs – who represented more than a dozen Democratic-led states – failed to show the necessary evidence of harm caused by DOGE's access in order to be granted a temporary restraining order. The decision from Chutkan, an Obama appointee, is a blow to the coalition of 14 attorneys general who sued last week to temporarily restrict DOGE's access to federal data personnel information about government employees.

Another MASSIVE win for the Trump administration! Judge Chutkan says the Democrat states have FAILED to provide adequate evidence to block DOGE’s efforts, adding “I'm not seeing it so far.” Keep in mind, Chutkan is a VERY anti-Trump judge, so the fact she can’t even see the legal path to block Musk & DOGE should be very telling.

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 Hearing about to get underway in Judge Tanya Chutkan's courtroom related to blue state lawsuit against Elon Musk/DOGE seeking a temporary restraining order (TRO) prohibiting Musk from: (1) Accessing or continuing to access any data systems and the information and code contained within those systems, including but not limited to systems containing sensitive or confidential agency and personnel data at the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Education, the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Commerce, or any components...

Federal District Judge Tanya Chutkan is poised to issue a temporary restraining order that would block nearly everyone in the Trump administration from accessing any data produced by any federal agency or dismissing any federal or contract workers. The order comes in response to a suit filed by 13 states — New Mexico, Arizona, Michigan, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington — claiming "that President Trump has violated the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution by creating a new federal Department without Congressional approval and by granting Musk sweeping powers over the entire federal...

Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee held a hearing on Friday afternoon after 14 Democrat state attorneys general sued Trump and DOGE and claimed Elon Musk is operating with unchecked power since he is not senate confirmed. Blue states such as Arizona, Michigan, Rhode Island, New Mexico, California, Massachusetts and others filed a lawsuit arguing President Trump violated the Appointments Clause of the Constitution when he created DOGE and gave Elon Musk ‘unchecked power.’ The attorneys general argued that since Elon Musk is not senate confirmed, he should be barred from issuing orders to anyone inside of the executive branch....

In November 2024 President Donald Trump won reelection in a landslide winning the popular vote, the electoral vote, and every single swing state! President Trump also held the US House of Representatives and took back the US Senate with a 53-47 majority. Little did we know at the time that Trump lost and it was really the far-left district attorneys who were elected to lead the United States for the next four years. On Thursday, 14 radical leftist Attorneys General filed a lawsuit against President Trump and his DOGE audit team. These radical leftists claim that Elon Musk, one of...

Even though President Trump had made it a campaign pledge to pardon those involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, the roughly 1,500 pardons Trump issued on his first day produced familiar reactions from politicians and pundits. In Philadelphia, District Attorney Larry Krasner pledged to pursue those pardoned or commuted with new charges on the state level — eclipsing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in repackaging federal crimes as state offenses. Others cited the pardons as evidence of an even greater plot or purpose. On MSNBC, former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund head Sherrilyn Ifill declared that the...

“The rewriting of the history of Jan. 6, 2021, is incredibly disturbing,” Judge Beryl Howell said U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan says she has often reassured police officers traumatized by the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, that “the rule of law still applies.” But as President-elect Donald Trump — once a defendant in Chutkan’s very court — prepares to retake the White House and pardon many Jan. 6 perpetrators, Chutkan now says, “I’m not sure I can do that very convincingly these days.” Chutkan’s comments, delivered this week as she sentenced another member of the Jan. 6 mob to eight...

A judge Monday dismissed the charges against Donald Trump related to the Jan. 6 riots after Special Counsel Jack Smith threw in the towel — with the president-elect bashing the case as solely “political hijacking.” Presiding US District Judge Tanya Chutkan ​of Washington, DC, granted​ Smith’s motion filed ​earlier Monday seeking to dismiss the charges​ based on Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election and​ the precedent against indicting a sitting US president​. Smith​’s team ​also separately moved ​Monday to end its appeal of a Florida judge’s decision nixing Smith’s classified document case against Trump — once considered one of...

Judge grants request from prosecutors to dismiss election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump

Washington — The federal district judge overseeing the case against President-elect Donald Trump related to the 2020 election agreed to forego current deadlines to allow special counsel Jack Smith and his team more time to assess the "unprecedented circumstance" arising out of his election Tuesday to serve a second term in the White House. Smith asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in a one-paragraph filing for additional time to "determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with Department of Justice policy." He said prosecutors will provide more information to the court by Dec. 2. Chutkan quickly granted Smith's request and...

ALL CASES AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST EITHER BE DROPPED BY PROSECUTORS OR DISMISSED BY THE RELEVANT COURTS For half a century, it has been the position of Democrat and Republican administrations, that the DOJ cannot indict a sitting president. This position has been justified for a myriad of reasons, all of which come down to the fact, that the president is the head of the executive branch, and unelected prosecutors, juries, and judges cannot exercise a power that makes it impossible for a president to carry out his constitutional duties while defending his liberty and reputation in a courtroom. To...

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump filed a motion Thursday to dismiss special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case, arguing that Smith was illegally appointed and should no longer receive public funds, according to court filings.The election interference case between Trump and Smith has escalated over the past month, with Judge Tanya Chutkan releasing a redacted version of Smith’s 165-page brief on Oct. 2, detailing the case’s evidence. Trump’s legal team now claims that the “unjust case” violates the “Constitution’s Appointments and Appropriations Clauses” due to Smith not being properly appointed “by law.”“Even if Smith is a valid officer, which...