The Trump government asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for the government efficiency department (DOGE) of Elon Musk Access social security systems that contain personal data of millions of Americans.
The emergency appeal occurs after a judge in Maryland restricted equipment access under federal privacy laws.
Social Security retains personal records of almost all inhabitants of the country, including school records, bank details, Salary information and medical and mental health records of disability beneficiaries, according to judicial documents.
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The Government says that the Doge team needs access to identify waste in the federal government and asked the judges to suspend the order of the lower court while the demand on the subject takes place.
EThe Attorney GeneralJohn Sauer, argued that the restrictions imposed by the judge disturb the urgent work of Doge and improperly interfere with the functions of the Executive Power. “If it is not modified, this precautionary measure will only cause more judicial interference in the internal decision making of the agency,” he wrote.
Musk He has focused on social security as an alleged focus of fraud, describing it as a “Ponzi scheme” and insisting that reducing waste in the program is an important way to trim government spending.
An appeal court refused to immediately lift Doge access, despite its ideological divisions. The Conservative judgesin a minority, they affirmed that there is no evidence that the team has performed selective espionage or exposed personal information.
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The demand was originally filed by a group of unions and retirees represented by the group Democracy Forward.
The Judge of the American District Judge Ellen Hollander In Maryland that blocked Doge access to social security systems, it allowed staff to access data that had been written or stripped of any personally identifiable element.
The appeal is the last one of a series of emergency applications to the highest court in the country while the Trump administration faces around 200 demands that question several aspects of the president’s broad conservative agenda of the president Donald Trump.
