A government-funded nonprofit group filed a lawsuit to protect itself from “continuous damage” lawsuit, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday to support the Trump administration Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge).
this American Institute of Peace (USIP) filed a request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) Tuesday, claiming that Doge committed “real intrusion and takeover of the headquarters buildings of the Institute on Constitution Avenue.”
The group also accused the anti-waste initiative of “ongoing damage to the physical and electronic property of the institute.”
“The defendant has been and is engaging in the act at this moment, which will cause irreparable harm, which will prevent the institute from performing any of its legal functions and may completely destroy it,” the lawsuit said.
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The request for temporary restrictions on the U.S. Peace Institute’s request for a door was rejected by a judge on Wednesday, representing Trump’s victory. (Getty Images/AP Image)
In a decision Wednesday, Judge Beryl Howell signaled to reject USIP’s tros request.
“I think the confusion in the complaint makes me uncomfortable,” Howell said.
She continued: “I’m going to say that Howge was very angry when the institute was operating on the treatment aspects of American citizens… But the focus on this situation did not make me take into account the TRO, it was emergency relief, which is very exceptional.”
Howell, who was appointed as a senior judge in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia in 2024, also said she was “particularly concerned about the possibility of the plaintiff’s success.”
Howell added: “The two most important tests can be successful in their merits and potentially irreparable injuries, which is just one scope here.”
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Judge Beryl Howell issued her decision on Wednesday in 2016. (Katherine Frey/Washington Post via Getty Images)
USIP, an independent body funded by Congress, was founded in 1984 under the leadership of the Reagan administration. According to its website, its goal is to “protect the interests of the United States by helping prevent violent conflict and brokerage peaceful transactions.”
“Our work helps ensure the security of the United States, thus reducing the risk that the United States will fall into expensive foreign wars that drive terrorism, criminal gangs and immigration,” the agency reads on its website. “We help make the United States stronger by predicting the influence of the U.S. and other U.S. rivals and strengthening partner countries.”
USIP notoriously disobeys the president Donald TrumpThe February executive order withdrew the “scope of the federal bureaucracy”, refusing to reduce its size to the statutory minimum listed in the order.
As a result, the Trump administration fired 11 of its 14 board members last week, leaving only the Secretary of State Marco RubioSecretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and President of the National Defense University Peter Garvin.
Shortly after Howell’s decision, the White House told Fox News Digital that the Trump administration had put the USIP of the “rogue bureaucrat” in a dilemma.
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Signs can be seen on the doorstep of the U.S. Peace Building Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday reading “Non-Intrusion” (Getty Image)
“Rogue bureaucrats will not allow institutions to be hijacked,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement Tuesday. “The Trump administration will execute the president’s administration and ensure its institutions are accountable to the American people.”
Emma Colton of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
