Democrats are desperate to find a way to stop Elon Musk.
They’re hoping that lawfare can do the trick.
And a federal prosecutor dropped one fact about Elon Musk that left Democrats fuming.
Democrats turn to lawsuits to slow down Elon Musk and DOGE
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are over the target.
DOGE exposed the corrupt spending at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that led to President Donald Trump shuttering the agency.
Musk and his team are moving on to audit other federal agencies like the Department of Education and the IRS.
That’s why government employee unions and Democrat state Attorneys General have been filing lawsuits to stop DOGE’s work.
One activist judge in ruling against DOGE blocked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from accessing his own department’s data.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Cherkasky argued that DOGE would win its legal battle with Democrats during an appearance on Fox News.
Cherkasky noted that D.C. District Court Judge Tonya Chutkan – who oversaw the sham January 6 criminal case against Trump – was reluctant to go along with some of the Democrat legal arguments.
“The Deep State’s days are numbered at this point,” Cherkasky said. “I think that particularly yesterday, seeing Judge Chutkan push back against the Democratic efforts to shut down DOGE and to limit their access is particularly telling.”
He pointed out that Judge Chutkan was deeply biased against Trump when she presided over his case.
“Remember, Judge Chutkan was the one who was overseeing the D.C. criminal trial against Donald Trump and was very adversarial to him and his interests throughout that, in fact, rejected his arguments that Jack Smith was acting outside his authority and needed to have been a congressionally approved Special Counsel,” Cherkasky explained.
Barack Obama did Elon Musk and Trump a favor
Cherkasky predicted that DOGE would prevail in the lawsuits against it because Musk was acting as an advisor to the President and DOGE was a repurposed White House initiative started under former President Barack Obama.
Chutkan would be setting herself up to get overturned if she argued that Smith had the authority to be Special Counsel but Musk and DOGE had to be shut down.
“That’s interesting Jack Smith had independent authority, independent from the attorney general, and independent from the president of the United States,” Cherkasky stated. “Elon Musk is a totally different example where DOGE and Elon both are operating as advisors to the president in a department that was established specifically for government reduction and technology improvements in the Obama Administration. So I think that the legal arguments are very sound. The lawsuits will come, but I think they’re going to continue to win.”
Cherkasky explained that Presidential advisors like Musk have a longstanding history in the White House.
“When it comes to just an advisor to the Presidential – to the President’s authority and the President maintains authority over the actions of their senior advisors, there’s plenty of senior advisors within the White House and that’s been the case throughout the history of the Presidency of the United States, so this is nothing new,” Cherkasky added. “President Trump is essentially saying whatever is going on with DOGE, the buck stops with him in the White House, in the Oval Office. So these are people who are operating on his behalf and his behest, not independently.”
Fox News host Harris Faulkner pointed out that Democrats were lying when they claimed that Musk had no accountability as part of their efforts to brand him as a rogue villain.
“That is so important for people to hear. I’m gonna put that on a loop and put it on social media today. No, seriously,” Faulkner said. “What people are being told, what voters are being told is there is something untoward going on with Musk playing the role of an advisor and while I couldn’t do that job, I guess anybody could be the advisor at that point, if the President wanted it, but the buck stops with Trump.”
