The conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court handed two big victories on Friday to the Department of Government Efficiency on access to sensitive information and on answering Freedom of Information requests.
Critics on the left have mounted numerous legal challenges in an attempt to shut down the efforts of DOGE, which had been previously led by tech billionaire Elon Musk .
'A district court has issued sweeping injunctive relief without legal authority to do so, in ways that inflict ongoing, irreparable harm on urgent federal priorities and stymie the Executive Branch’s functions.'
The court found 6-3 that DOGE can have access to records at the Social Security Administration, with Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson saying they would have denied the