DOGE Picks Up BIG Win In Supreme Court Ruling

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The Supreme Court on Friday allowed members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to access data collected by the Social Security Administration.

The high court granted an emergency application filed by the Trump administration.

NBC News reports:

The unsigned order said that members of the DOGE team assigned to the Social Security Administration should have “access to the agency records in question in order for those members to do their work.”

The lawsuit challenging DOGE’s actions was filed by progressive group Democracy Forward on behalf of two unions — the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and the American Federation of Teachers — as well as the Alliance for Retired Americans.

“This is a sad day for our democracy and a scary day for millions of people,” the groups said in a statement. “This ruling will enable President Trump and DOGE’s affiliates to steal Americans’ private and personal data.”

“The Supreme Court allowing the Trump Administration to carry out commonsense efforts to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse and modernize government information systems is a huge victory for the rule of law,” White House spokesperson Liz Huston said, according to NBC News.

Per NPR:

The vote was 6 to 3, with the conservative super majority ruling in favor of the DOGE team. The court’s three liberals said they would have ruled the other way, temporarily barring the DOGE team’s access to Social Security records while the case proceeds through the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, writing for herself and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, blasted the majority for giving the DOGE team unfettered access to unredacted personal information “before the courts have time to assess whether DOGE’s access is lawful.” In essence, she said, the government’s so-called “urgency” about gaining this access “is the mere fact that it cannot be bothered to wait for the litigation process to play out before proceeding as it wishes. ”

That has not been the way the process has worked in the past, she said.

“Once again the this court dons its emergency responder gear, rushes to the scene , and uses its equitable power to fan the flames rather than extinguish them,” Jackson wrote.

Jackson said that rather than the government suffering from the existing stay in the lower courts, it is the nation’s citizens who will now see their personal data compromised.

“With today’s decision, it seems as if the court has truly lost its moorings,” she said. In the process, she added, the court is creating “grave privacy risks for millions of Americans.”



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