Judge Prods ‘Where Is Mr. Musk’ as DOGE Legal Challenges Build

Parsing the latest legal fight over President Donald Trump’s rapid push to shrink the US government, there was a big question on US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s mind:

“Where is Mr. Musk in all of this?”

The Monday hearing before the veteran Washington jurist marked the latest in a string of cases in which judges have probed the speed and secrecy surrounding Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

The Justice Department attorney appearing before Kollar-Kotelly repeated in response to the judge’s questions that Musk is a trusted Trump adviser. He could not identify the ...