Judge Holds Strange Hearing on Musk's Role at White House

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The DC federal judge responsible for one of Trump’s original criminal cases is about to rule on whether to issue a restraining order now, or a preliminary injunction in 2 weeks, to stop Musk from accessing federal data or firing people. Michael Popok reports on the Judge finding the Trump DOJ’s comments that they “don’t know if people have been fired” and that “Musk doesn’t have actual or formal authority” to do so, lacking credibility during a rare Holiday hearing. Elevate your workspace and energize your year with Uplift Desk. Go to https://upliftdesk.com/legalaf for a special offer exclusive to our audience. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.0	Judge Chutkin, you may recall, was the judge presiding over all things Donald Trump criminal case and election interference?
1:05.5	Now she's back because she's one of dozens of judges in the D.C. courts, D.C. federal courts that are now responsible for about half of the lawsuits that have been filed.
1:16.6	More than 70-70 lawsuits have been filed against Donald Trump's worst instincts and his administration and his executive orders.
1:25.2	Many of them about Elon Musk and Doge.
1:28.0	What is Doge? It was the website master for the United States. But in the hands of Donald
1:33.9	Trump and Elon Musk, it's an unconstitutional assault on our federal agencies and federal funding.
1:42.2	States are joining together. This time, we've got a hearing involving
1:46.1	13 different states who have brought a case against Elon Musk and Donald Trump to stop them
1:52.8	from dismantling federal agencies. All the federal agencies that you can think of in particular,
1:59.8	particularly the ones related to labor, education,
2:04.4	health and human services, energy, and transportation.
2:08.5	Now, Judge Chutkin was a bit skeptical on Friday, not about the merits of the case,
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