Trump appointment of Pete Marocco 'likely illegal'
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Left: President Donald Trump addresses reporters before crossing the South Lawn of the White House to catch Marine One, heading to Joint Base Andrews, Md., and subsequently to Florida, on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Washington (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein). Right: Pete Marocco, a political appointee involved in dismantling USAID, exits after a private briefing with the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite).

A federal judge based in Washington, D.C., decided on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s selection of a singular board member at an agency he had significantly reorganized with assistance from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was “possibly unlawful.”

Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, appointed by George W. Bush, stated that Pete Marocco, who had not been confirmed by the U.S. Senate, probably “lacks the legal authorization” to act as the interim head of the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF).

The judge sided instead with plaintiff Rural Development Innovations Limited (RDI), a Zambian consulting firm and USADF grantee that “offers technical support to small businesses including women-and youth-led enterprises” and whose very “existence is threatened” by the sweeping agency cuts.

As Law&Crime reported in March, RDI and two USADF employees filed suit in federal court after DOGE employees and Marocco, known for his role in dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, moved to shut down the agency as much as the law allowed and proceeded to nuke the near entirety of its contracts and grants.

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