A lawsuit challenging the sweeping role of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency in the Trump administration is set to continue after a federal judge ruled a coalition of Democratic-led states had grounds to pursue legal action.
On Tuesday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia partially rejected the Justice Department’s request to scrap the consolidated challenge brought by New Mexico and 13 other states in February.
DOJ attorneys argued the case should be dismissed because they had failed to properly state a claim to the court or establish the court’s jurisdiction over the case.
But Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, said the states had sufficiently shown they had been harmed, at least for this stage of the litigation.
