It’s a good day for DOGE.

The Supreme Court has just sided with DOGE on not one, but two, important matters.

Firstly, SCOTUS ruled to allow the Department of Government Efficiency to access key Social Security data.

At this point, DOGE has been trying to get permission for this data for months now, with judges blocking them at every turn. Now, they can finally perform the full-scale audit promised to the American people.

It will be very interesting to find out what DOGE uncovers and what the Deep State was trying so desperately to hide from them…

Fox News reported:

The ruling blocked a lower Maryland court order that kept DOGE from seeking certain Social Security information due to federal privacy laws.

The data from the U.S. Social Security Administration includes Social Security numbers, medical information, citizenship records, school records, and tax returns for millions of Americans.

“We conclude that, under the present circumstances, SSA may proceed to afford members of the SSA DOGE Team access to the agency records in question in order for those members to do their work,” the court said in an unsigned order.

The six conservative justices voted for the ruling and the three liberal justices, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.

Permitting DOGE to access Social Security information is the biggest win.

Though, Elizabeth Warren doesn’t seem too happy:

But, this second decision is also very good news.

Today, the Supreme Court also blocked an order that forced DOGE to hand over sensitive documents as part of an FOIA lawsuit.

CBS News has more details on that ruling:

The Supreme Court on Friday halted lower court orders that required the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency to turn over information to a government watchdog group as part of a lawsuit that tests whether President Trump’s cost-cutting task force has to comply with federal public records law.

The order from the high court clears DOGE for now from having to turn over records related to its work and personnel, and keeps Amy Gleason, identified as its acting administrator, from having to answer questions at a deposition. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

“The portions of the district court’s April 15 discovery order that require the government to disclose the content of intra–executive branch USDS recommendations and whether those recommendations were followed are not appropriately tailored,” the court said in its order. “Any inquiry into whether an entity is an agency for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act cannot turn on the entity’s ability to persuade. Furthermore, separation of powers concerns counsel judicial deference and restraint in the context of discovery regarding internal executive branch communications.”

The Supreme Court sent the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for more proceedings.

Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily paused the district court’s order last month, which allowed the Supreme Court more time to consider the Trump administration’s bid for emergency relief. A district judge had ordered DOGE to turn over documents to the group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, by June 3, and for Gleason’s deposition to be completed by June 13.

The underlying issue in the case involves whether DOGE is subject to the Freedom of Information Act. CREW argues that the cost-cutting task force wields “substantial independent authority,” which makes it a de facto agency that must comply with federal public records law.

The Justice Department, however, disagrees and instead claims that DOGE is a presidential advisory body housed within the Executive Office of the President that makes recommendations to the president and federal agencies on matters that are important to Mr. Trump’s second-term agenda.



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