The efforts of Ilon Musk and his team to finally close the USA International Development Service (USAID) have probably violated the Constitution ‘In many ways’ And they stole Congress’s power to supervise or dismantle a service he created, found a federal judge on Tuesday.

As the nytimesthe judge’s ruling Thodor Chuang of the US Regional Court of Justice for the Maryland District, was based on the fact that Musk acted as a US officer without being appointed to President Trump.

Judge Chuang agreed with the allegation of the workers that Mr Musk’s rapid claim of power over the executive was likely to violate the appointment of the Constitution.

The judge also ordered to partially restore the functions of the Doge Department, although this suspension is likely to be temporary. He ordered the MSK team to restore access by email to all USAID employees, including those who are on pay. He also ordered employees to re -understand the federal office from which they were expelled last month and banned the MSK team from participating in any further work “On the closure of USAID”.

And while the order banned Musk from personally dealing with the service, Musk or someone else could continue to do it with “The explicit authorization of a USAID official with legitimate power to take or approve the action.”

As early as February 3, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mark Rubio He said he had taken control of the service and had incorporated various cuts in his own powers. The judge noted that Rubio could declare his intention to permanently close the headquarters of the service within 14 days of the case and offices would remain closed.

Last week, Mr Rubio said in a social media announcement that he had canceled 83 percent of the organization’s programs and that the State Department would handle the remaining 1,000 grants and contracts.

“We thank our Doge and Labor Staff for many hours to achieve this late and historical reform”he wrote.

The finding that Mr Musk had personally, and illegally, oversee the dismantling of the agency resulted in a strictly worded order by Judge Chuang against Musk or his team members.

“Today’s decision is an important victory against Ilon Musk and Doge’s attack on USAID, the US government and the Constitution,” said the Norm Eisen, Executive President of the Humanitarian State Democracy Defenders Fund. They are really performing a scalpel surgery instead of a scalpel, not only damaging the people served by USAID but the majority of Americans based on the stability of our government. The decision is a milestone to combat the illegality of Musk and Doge »

The lawyers representing the government had previously argued that Musk was not in fact at the US Doge Service, but he and his associates had only advisory status. They said that Musk had no power to make decisions on his own.

“Doge has taken numerous actions without apparent advanced approval by the organization’s leadership”The judge said, citing a series of services, from the Ministry of Education, the National Institutes of Health to the Energy Department, where Musk’s associates apparently decided to cut on their own.

The judge noted that Musk, during a meeting of the Council of Ministers who participated in the White House last month, acknowledged that his team had been by mistake Funding to prevent Ebola managed by USAID.

And he cited his own comments on X, his social networking platform when he wrote in February that it was time for usaid to ‘Dies’that his team was in the process of closing the agency and that “He spent the weekend putting USAID to the crush.”

The judge also stated that Musk talked about the need ‘Deletion of entire agencies’ and spoke of a post notified by Musk in which he mentioned ‘Doge can now break up USAID’after a judge decision to lift a mandate that prevents the service from making mass redundancies.