Overview

• In a 6-3 ruling, the court stayed Judge Ellen Hollander’s injunction and cleared DOGE personnel to access non-anonymized Social Security Administration systems
• A separate unsigned order paused FOIA discovery in the CREW lawsuit, blocking lower-court demands for internal DOGE documents and communications
• Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented, warning that emergency intervention bypasses ordinary judicial review and endangers personal data
• DOGE was established by President Trump in January to modernize federal technology and cut waste and fraud, with Elon Musk leading the task force before his public split from the administration
• Critics and labor unions had argued that anonymized data and targeted queries would protect sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, medical records and tax details