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From Fox News: A federal appeals court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s motion to extend a stay allowing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to continue operating at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Last week, a federal judge in Maryland ruled efforts to halt USAID functions were likely unconstitutional, ordering its reinstatement.
A federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday issued a stay, temporarily blocking the judge’s order that prohibited DOGE from working with USAID. It also barred biopharmaceutical executive Jeremy Levin from leading the agency.
A group of 26 unidentified current and former USAID employees or contractors alleged the Trump administration unlawfully canceled government contracts, placed USAID personnel on administrative leave, reduced the force of employees and contractors, closed the headquarters and took down the website, violating the U.S. Constitution’s appointments clause because Elon Musk acted as DOGE administrator without being properly appointed.
The Trump administration fought back against the allegations, and on Friday, U.S. Court of Appeals Circuit judges Arthur Marvin Quattlebaum Jr. and Judge Paul V. Niemeyer found that Musk and DOGE “made a strong showing that they are likely to succeed on the merits of the appeal, that they will be irreparably injured absent the stay.”
ABOUT THE JUDGES:
Judge Arthur Marvin Quattlebaum Jr., 60, was first nominated by President Donald Trump in August 2017 to serve as a judge for the U.S. District Court of South Carolina. Trump later elevated him to serve as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and he assumed the office in September 2018.
Judge Paul V. Niemeyer, 83 was nominated by the late President Ronald Reagan in 1987 to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. He was then nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circut by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.
🚨 #BREAKING: The 4th circuit has officially CLEARED THE WAY for Elon Musk and DOGE to continue operating in USAID
MASSIVE WIN to start the weekend 🔥
DOGE can now start digging deeper into USAID to expose past and present corruption.
This is a bad day to be a bad guy in… pic.twitter.com/NCpdP2Sg2K
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 28, 2025
Appeals court rules DOGE can continue operating at USAID in another win for Trump administration https://t.co/Y5auchb1tJ
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 29, 2025
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