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In their amicus curiae brief, the state attorneys general say that if the federal court prevents the administration from carrying out President Trump’s mandate from voters to root out government waste, fraud, and abuse, it would amount to “an unprecedented assault on the separation of powers and the president’s authority under Article II of the Constitution.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James led a coalition of 19 Democratic attorneys general who sued Trump on Feb. 7 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The 33-page civil complaint sought to stop Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records containing sensitive personal data, such as Social Security and bank account numbers of millions of Americans. More
Friday’s amicus brief was filed by the states of Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Utah.
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