Judge Blocks Musk’s DOGE Team from Access to Social Security Data

Another Temporary Restraining Order to stop or at the minimum slow down Trump in accomplishing his mission of digging into the deep state and finding fraud and abuse. We have arrived at a judicial crisis point with no end in sight. Supreme Court Roberts has made it clear that he is not interested in placing a red light on any of it so far.

Why is there never any concern over nameless random government employees having access to data? Why does anyone trust them??? All the pearl clutching and no one among the pearl clutchers can answer that question.

Stephen Miller:

Currently, district court judges have assumed the mantle of Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, Secretary of Homeland Security and Commander-in-Chief. Each day, they change the foreign policy, economic, staffing and national security policies of the Administration.

Each day the nation arises to see what the craziest unelected local federal judge has decided the policies of the government of the United States shall be. It is madness. It is lunacy. It is pure lawlessness. It is the gravest assault on democracy. It must and will end.

Here we go with Social Security.

“The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion,” wrote judge Hollander, an Obama appointee.

The order still allows DOGE to access ‘redacted or anonymized data and records of SSA.’ (What help will redacted info be to DOGE?)

According to the Trump administration, DOGE has a 10-person team of federal employees investigating the Social Security Administration, seven of whom have been granted read-only access to agency systems or personally identifiable information. The government has argued that DOGE access doesn’t significantly deviate from normal practices inside the agency whereby employees can search databases.

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Today’s ruling follows a string of judicial DOGE-blocking – as their access to records across the federal government have prompted disputes with senior officials at various agencies. Perhaps most prominently, the highest-ranking civil servant at the US Treasury Department quit after similarly refusing to grant Musk’s team access to the Bureau of Fiscal Service, which manages over $5 trillion in annual payments.

On February 8, 2025, Judge Paul A. Engelmayer in New York blocked DOGE from Treasury records after 19 states, led by NY AG Letitia James, sued over cybersecurity threats. Subsequent rulings, like Judge Deborah Boardman’s February 24 TRO on Education and OPM data, reinforced limits on DOGE’s reach. These cases established that DOGE’s “need-to-know” basis for PII access was unproven.

The same day that King quit, Musk posted what he says could be the ‘biggest fraud in US history‘ in which millions of ‘people’ over the age of 100 are collecting payments.

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“The Supreme Court’s going to have to step in and make some sound rulings here and stop activist judges from violating the Constitution by their interference. It is going to be a big issue.”

Here we have what the left thinks of this. A Federal Judge has blocked DOGE’s access to sensitive Social Security information. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks.

HOLY SMOKES: Mark Levin just ROASTED Chief Justice John Roberts:

“It’s time to GROW A PAIR, JUDGE!”

“How the HELL are we going to have 680 individual unelected federal judges…all sitting there behind their desks…saying, you know, I don’t like this idea!”

“This is EXACTLY… pic.twitter.com/mfUqSIvno5

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 19, 2025

Schumer over at MSNBC. A constitutional crisis indeed.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said President Trump’s escalating attacks on the judiciary have resulted in a “constitutional crisis” in the United States and that “democracy is at risk” during an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”

The worst of the swamp.

Source: https://bunkerville.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/judge-blocks-musks-doge-team-from-access-to-social-security-data/