Source: The Hill
by Kimberly Wehle
“The six justices comprising the far-right majority on the Supreme Court just radically endorsed a sweeping intrusion into the privacy of hundreds of millions of Americans by the Department of Government Efficiency or ‘DOGE,’ without so much as the pretense of a justification. … In April, a federal judge in Maryland agreed that Trump’s unfettered data-collection effort was legally dubious, finding that the pretense that it was necessary to detect ‘fraud, waste and abuse’ was not enough to overcome the myriad statutory protections for individual Americans’ private data. … In a terse order issued without full briefing or oral argument, Chief Justice Roberts — on behalf of the six conservative justices in the majority — sided with DOGE, reversing the district court’s temporary injunction and allowing Musk’s minions to access a treasure trove of personal data while the district court’s decision is on appeal.” (06/10/25)