Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court to Allow DOGE Access to Social Security Data

The Trump administration on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to gain access to Social Security data, coming after courts blocked the Elon Musk-led task force from accessing those records on privacy grounds. The petition comes after a judge in Maryland restricted the team’s access under federal privacy laws. An appeals court this week refused to immediately lift the block on DOGE’s access, prompting the administration’s emergency appeal. In a an appeal on behalf of the government, Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote to the nation’s highest court that “this emergency application presents a now-familiar theme: a district court has issued sweeping injunctive relief without legal authority to do so, in ways that inflict ongoing, irreparable harm on urgent federal priorities and stymie the Executive Branch’s functions.”...