Supreme Court hands DOGE big wins in Social Security, records cases

The Supreme Court on Friday handed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) two major victories in its expanding legal battle over drastic efforts to reshape the federal bureaucracy.

In two separate emergency rulings issued simultaneously, the court lifted a block on DOGE personnel accessing sensitive Social Security systems and wiped a ruling forcing DOGE to turn over discovery in a records lawsuit.

Both rulings appeared to be along the Supreme Court’s ideological lines, with the court’s three Democratic-appointed justices publicly dissenting.

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