🚨CONFLICT OF INTEREST ALERT🚨
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Judge Theodore D. Chuang, who recently declared DOGE’s shutdown of USAID unconstitutional, has ties to an NGO whose donor organization represents plaintiffs currently suing the Trump Administration over immigration organization funding cuts.… pic.twitter.com/PoSkDAu9vI
🚨CONFLICT OF INTEREST ALERT🚨
Judge Theodore D. Chuang, who recently declared DOGE’s shutdown of USAID unconstitutional, has ties to an NGO whose donor organization represents plaintiffs currently suing the Trump Administration over immigration organization funding cuts.
Muckraker has discovered Judge Chuang and his wife Jacinta Ma have ties to the leftist activist NGO Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC), which is currently representing plaintiffs in two cases: one suing the Trump administration for cutting DOJ funding to immigration organizations, and another challenging Trump’s anti-DEIA initiatives.
Judge Chuang was formerly Chair of the Board of the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center (APALRC), an organization that has received over $250,000 from AAJC and its affiliates.
APALRC was co-founded by current AAJC president John Yang.
As recently as October of 2024, Judge Chuang could be seen associating with APALRC when he attended their 25th anniversary party, indicating that his affiliation with the organization is ongoing, despite no longer serving as Chair of the Board.
In addition to Chuang’s affiliation with APALRC (the AAJC-funded NGO which is currently involved in a lawsuit against President Trump) both APALRC and AAJC receive federal funding.
APALRC was obligated $388K from the federal government in 2023, and AAJC affiliates have received over $970K since 2017, including $600K from the DOJ.
Judge Chuang’s wife Jacinta Ma formerly worked as Deputy Director for AAJC and was Vice President of Policy and Advocacy for the National Immigration Forum, a radical open-borders NGO.
Considering his ongoing affiliations with a leftist NGO whose donor organization currently represents plaintiffs who are suing the Trump administration, Judge Chuang is clearly compromised by multiple conflicts of interest:
1)Â Affiliation with an organization that receives federal funding.
2)Â Affiliation with an immigration activist organization.
3) Links (via Judge Chuang's wife and others) to an NGO that’s currently part of a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
His ruling against DOGE spending cuts should be disqualified on these grounds.
Receipts can be found in the thread.
@elonmusk please investigate.$281,375 in donations from Asian Americans Advancing Justice (the group currently involved in legal proceedings against the Trump administration) to the APALRC (the non-profit that Judge Theodore Chuang has close ties with).AAJC, with a coalition of immigration-related NGOs, is representing plaintiffs in a legal challenge to Trump’s freeze on DHS funding to immigrant services.AAJC, alongside Democracy Forward, is representing plaintiffs in a legal challenge to Trump's initiative against DEI practices in the workplace.Jacinta Ma's LinkedIn page, showing her associations with AAJC, the National Immigration Forum, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Jacinta Ma is judge Theodore D. Chuang's wife.Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California has received over $970K in federal funding.Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, which Judge Theodore D. Chuang formerly chaired and still maintains ties with, was obligated $388,843 in 2023.• • •
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