Held: Bat-guano crazy speculation does not a case for judicial intervention make.
A group of plaintiffs had attempted to block the US DOGE Service from access at Treasury on that very basis. They had claimed that the administration had the intent to expose personal information under cover of their mission to identify and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. And if the plaintiffs had any evidence of such, they might have prevailed.
Instead, the federal judge dismissed the lawsuit and told them to come back when evidence of wrongdoing actually emerged:
In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C., rejected a request by a retirees’ group and two labor unions to block DOGE from accessing the payment system, which processes tax refunds, Social Security payments, Medicare spending and federal salaries.
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