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Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data

by anigbrowl on 6/6/25, 9:15 PM with 126 comments

  • by JCattheATM on 6/6/25, 10:06 PM

    The DOGE team included several convicted teenage hackers, one known as 'big balls', messing around in government systems and copying data to random laptops.

    Fantastic.

    I'll be interested to browse this sensitive data at some point when it inevitably becomes public in the next few years as a result of this kakistocracy.

  • by JKCalhoun on 6/6/25, 9:41 PM

    > The conservative-majority court, with its three liberal justices objecting, granted an emergency application filed by the Trump administration asking the justices to lift an injunction issued by a federal judge in Maryland.

    Wild. I remember when it was presumed that Conservative meant protector of individual freedoms, rights.

  • by cryptonector on 6/7/25, 3:47 AM

    I really dislike the billing of "injunction lifted" as "court decides that [...]". Finality matters more. And before you say that DOGE getting into Treasury is a problem blah blah blah they've already been there and the Secretary can do the things that DOGE wants independently of DOGE anyways.

  • by oysterville on 6/6/25, 10:56 PM

  • by vaxman on 6/7/25, 5:08 PM

    DOGE is over, they will blame Musk for its wind down. Trump would have to go against his advisors to keep it operating but DOGE has only ever delivered small savings and tremendous liability, so our genius president is unlikely to do that.

  • by vaxman on 6/7/25, 7:05 AM

    It seems likely that the Pentagon will force SpaceX to merge with another company, which should be good for Tesla and Boring, but sad for his Mars dream.

    As for DOGE, Trump has a couple options. He can shut it down and blame Musk, or he can let it keep running against the advice of his team. After DOGE is gone, they will be able to get a warrant and start looking for copies of the data. The first place to look is X.

  • by smitty1e on 6/6/25, 11:52 PM

    If a fraction of the lurid tales of corruption prove valid, then this is not a bad thing.

    The SSA was never anything other than a Tenth Amendment violation to begin with, as shown by FDR's court packing threat[1], so a bit of external review seems in order.

    Some sort of sane transition plan off of these socialized programs would be of great interest to a super-majority of voters, one expects.

    [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Procedures_Reform_B...