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WASHINGTON – The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on May 2 to allow Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to access data on millions of Americans held by the US Social Security Agency.
A federal judge in Maryland stopped Doge from obtaining data after he discovered that the agency was likely violating federal privacy laws when Doge gave unlimited access.
The administration said the judge stomped and saw an intruder equivalent to the intruder equivalent, which employees would enter hotel rooms rather than attempting to modernize the agency’s technology and eradicate waste.
“The district court should not be able to wield privacy laws to replace its own views on the government’s “needs” with those of the president and agent,” Attorney General John Sauer told the Supreme Court.
Doge has sought access to multiple agencies as part of its mission to hunt down wasteful spending and dramatically overhaul the federal government.
Musk falsely claims that millions of dead Americans are still undergoing Social Security checks.
Two unions and advocacy groups sued the SSA.
In March, Maryland Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander said Doge was invading “personal issues of millions of Americans” on a fishing expedition based on more than suspicion.
The split federal court of appeals on April 30 rejected a request for intervention from the Trump administration.
US Circuit Judge Robert King said the government did not show the need for free access to highly sensitive personal information, with all the reasons why Americans believe they are “strongly protected.”
Doge’s mission can primarily be achieved through anonymized and compiled data. This is the usual way for agents to handle technology upgrades and fraud detection.
In a dissent, U.S. Circuit Judge Julius Richardson said the Court of Appeals should grant access, as was the case with the US Treasury Department, the Education Department and the Office of Personnel Management.
Although the Social Security Administration’s database is bigger, legal questions “appeared the same way, whether they’re probably in one million or 100 million rows,” he wrote.
The Supreme Court has set a May 12 deadline for unions to respond to the administration’s appeal.
(This story has been updated with new information. )
