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“Our constitutional order was founded in part to guard against the accumulation of state power in the hands of a single individual, and while that construction was first focused on the abuse of power of an 18th century monarch, it is no less dangerous in the hands of a 21st century tech tycoon,” New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez told reporters.
The states – Michigan, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington, in addition to New Mexico and Arizona – are seeking a court order to block Musk and his aides from making changes to the disbursement of public funds, government contracts, regulations or personnel, as well as barring access to or altering data systems.
Trump has ‘delegated virtually unchecked authority to Musk without proper legal authorization from Congress and without meaningful supervision of his activities,’ the suit states.
The lawsuit argues that Trump has “delegated virtually unchecked authority to Mr. Musk without proper legal authorization from Congress, and without meaningful supervision of his activities.
Musk’s seemingly limitless and unchecked power to strip the government of its workforce and eliminate entire departments with the stroke of a pen or click of a mouse would have been shocking to those who won this country’s independence,” the suit notes.
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