in World News BREAKING: Fourth Circuit Delivers Crushing Blow to Left’s Lawfare
Grants Emergency Stay Protecting Elon Musk, DOGE, and Gov’t Efficiency Mission from USAID Operation
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a decisive blow to the left’s relentless lawfare on Friday.
The court granted an emergency stay, suspending a lower court’s absurd preliminary injunction that sought to hamstring Elon Musk, the United States DOGE Service, and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from carrying out their mission to streamline a bloated and inefficient government—starting with the outdated United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The original ruling, handed down by a Maryland district court on March 18 by Judge Theodore Chuang, was a textbook case of judicial overreach, cheered on by 26 anonymous USAID bureaucrats desperate to cling to their cushy government gigs.
Judge Chuang, an appointee of Barack Obama, issued a 68-page opinion asserting that the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) initiative to dissolve USAID likely violated the Constitution.
He ordered the restoration of email and computer access to all USAID employees, including those placed on administrative leave, effectively halting the administration’s cost-cutting measures.
These “J. Does 1-26” whined that Musk and Trump’s DOGE team were trampling the Constitution by daring to cut waste, cancel contracts, and shut down an agency that’s long outlived its usefulness.
They cried about the Appointments Clause and separation of powers, claiming Musk—a private citizen turned Senior Advisor to the President—was somehow illegally acting as DOGE’s “Administrator.”
Judge Chuang, predictably sympathetic to the swamp, slapped an injunction on Musk and his team, ordering them to restore USAID’s bloated systems and halt any further “dismantling.”
But the Fourth Circuit saw through the nonsense. In a sharply worded order, Judges A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr. and Paul Victor Niemeyer shredded the lower court’s logic, finding that Trump’s team made a “strong showing” they’d win on appeal. The evidence? Overwhelming.
Musk isn’t some rogue “Officer of the United States” requiring Senate confirmation—he’s a trusted advisor executing the President’s Article II authority to run the Executive Branch as he sees fit.