The Trump administration is taking the battle over DOGE’s access to Social Security systems to the Supreme Court!
On Friday, the Trump administration filed an emergency appeal asking SCOTUS to finally let DOGE to access data from the SSA.
Specifically, they petitioned SCOTUS to lift a Maryland judge’s prior injunction that blocked DOGE from accessing key SSA data needed to audit the agency for waste and fraud.
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The Hill has more information:
The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to let the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access millions of Americans’ personal data stored by the Social Security Administration (SSA) while it appeals an order that iced the advisory group out.
ADVERTISEMENTThe emergency application asks the justices to lift a Maryland federal judge’s injunction blocking DOGE from poking around the SSA’s systems that contain personally identifiable information, including Social Security numbers, medical and mental health records, bank data, and earnings history.
“This emergency application presents a now-familiar theme: a district court has issued sweeping injunctive relief without legal authority to do so, in ways that inflict ongoing, irreparable harm on urgent federal priorities and stymie the Executive Branch’s functions,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the application.
Sauer argued that DOGE’s mission to “streamline government, eliminate waste, ferret out fraud and modernize outdated systems” is undermined by U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander’s order keeping the advisory group out of the SSA’s networks.
“The government cannot eliminate waste and fraud if district courts bar the very agency personnel with expertise and the designated mission of curtailing such waste and fraud from performing their jobs,” he said.
The emergency SCOTUS appeal is the latest in an ongoing fight between Trump and the courts to get DOGE access to Social Security systems.
It’s a fight that President Trump has vowed to win, in order to ensure that DOGE can fulfill its promise to the American people to completely eradicate government waste and fraud!
The Washington Examiner noted:
Last month, U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander blocked DOGE’s team from seeking Social Security Administration records in an effort to abide by the “commitment to the privacy and confidentiality of the personal information entrusted to it by the American people.”
Hollander ruled that DOGE could be granted “access to redacted or anonymized data and records” once DOGE members satisfied certain requirements such as receiving training on privacy laws and background investigations.
However, Sauer contended Hollander was interjecting into the executive’s branch functions.
ADVERTISEMENT“The district court’s flawed injunction forecloses the executive branch from carrying out the pressing priorities of modernizing government information systems and ferreting out fraud, waste, and abuse — all at the behest of plaintiffs who gave their information to the agencies with the knowledge that other government employees may access their data,” Sauer wrote.
An appeals court already rejected the request by the Trump administration to overrule the judge’s block on accessing Social Security records as the lawsuit plays out, prompting the government to escalate the matter to the Supreme Court.
“The president will continue to seek all legal remedies available to ensure the will of the American people is executed,” Liz Huston, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.
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