Overview

• The Court suspended a Maryland judge’s injunction and approved Doge’s access to SSA records containing Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, bank account details and medical information.
• Six conservative justices voted for the emergency order while three liberal jurists including Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented over privacy concerns.
• Since Elon Musk’s exit on May 30, Doge has operated under President Donald Trump’s agenda with oversight by OMB Director Russell Vought.
• Doge is a core element of Project 2025, tasked with enforcing deep spending cuts across federal agencies to reshape administrative power.
• The dispute over Doge’s data use and internal transparency will continue in lower courts even as staff begin work with the SSA databases.