A Supreme Court decision has cleared the way for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to access Social Security Administration (SSA) data, overturning a lower court’s preliminary injunction. The ruling, issued Friday, stems from a request by the Trump administration in May to pause the injunction.

The Court’s order stated, “We conclude that, under the present circumstances, SSA may proceed to afford members of the SSA DOGE Team access to the agency records in question in order for those members to do their work.”

This decision allows the DOGE team to move forward with its operations, which involve accessing certain SSA records.

The ruling was not unanimous, with Justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting. Justice Jackson, in a dissent joined by

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