On Friday, the Trump administration filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal district court judge blocked the department of government efficiency (DOGE) from accessing Social Security Administration information on governmental computer systems.
We’ll need to lay out some background on the case first. Here’s some fleshing out of the case’s important details on the Maryland-based, federal district court judge’s injunction:
The judge concluded in her April decision that the plaintiffs, two labor unions and an advocacy group represented by Democracy Forward, were likely to succeed on their claim that the Social Security Administration’s decision to give DOGE access to millions of Americans’ confidential information violated the Privacy Act and a federal law governing the agency rulemaking process.
“T]he issue here is not the work that…
