Washington (AP) – Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to open the way to Elon Musk Government department to access social security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans.
The emergency call comes after a Maryland judge has limited the team’s access under federal privacy laws.
Social Security has personal files on almost everyone in the country, including school records, bank details, information on wages and medical and mental health files for disability beneficiaries, according to court documents.
The Government says that the DOGE team needs access to target waste in the federal government and has asked the judges to suspend the order of the lower court while the issue on the issue takes place.
General solicitor John Sauer argued that the restrictions of the judge disrupt the urgent work of Doge and interfere inappropriately with the functions of executive branch. “Left without being disturbed, this preliminary injunction will only invite new legal incursions in the decision-making of the internal agency,” he wrote.
Musk focused on social security as an alleged bankruptcy of fraud, describing it as a ” Ponzi diagram And insisting on the reduction of waste in the program is an important means of reducing public spending.
A court of appeal refused to immediately lift the block on access to Doge, although it separates along the ideological lines. The conservative judges of the minority said that there was no evidence that the team had made personal information “targeted to espionage” or exhibited.
The trial was initially filed by a group of unions and retirees represented by the Democracy group.
The decision of the American district judge Ellen Hollander, in Maryland, which blocked DOGE of social security systems allowed employees to access the data that has been exploded or stripped of all that is personally identifiable.
The appeal is the last in a series of emergency requests to the highest courtyard in the country while the Trump administration faces around 200 prosecution contesting various aspects of the radical conservative agenda of President Donald Trump.
