Trump brings Doge fight for access to the data of the social security data in front of the Supreme Court

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President Donald Trump's government asked the Supreme Court on Friday to enable Elon Muskks Department of Government Efficiency to access hundreds of millions of Americans to social security data.

The most recent emergency room to reach the High Court during the second term from Trump introduces Doge in front of the judges and is the first argument that reaches the Supreme Court to deal with access to sensitive government databases that Musk has requested.

“The government cannot eliminate any waste and fraud if district courts exclude the staff of the agency with expertise and the proven mission of restriction of such waste and fight against fraud by executing their work,” said the administration in its appointment.

However, the judges of the Lower Court have announced that at least some of the information that the mastiff has requested is closely checked even within the social security administration. The complaint was followed by a shared decision by the 4th Court of Appeal of the US Circle on Wednesday, which continued to block Doge from access to the information.

The case was submitted with the highest judge John Roberts, who releases the emergencies that will increase from the 4th circle, although he will probably transfer the matter to the full court. Roberts ordered the groups to ask the Doge to react to the appeal of the administration by May 12th.

In the opinion of the Court of Appeal, the US judge Robert King wrote that the data that Doge sought to exceed what “all the most experienced and trustworthy” may be checked at the administration itself. The Clinton -based appointment wrote access to the data: “Abandoned SSA guidelines and practices of access restrictions and tasks.”

Nine judges voted to leave the order of the district court and six resistance.

The preparatory courts examined the rationales, which the administration presented why a handful of Doge employees needed the keys for the closely guarded social security databases, contained the data on the medical records of the Americans, bank account numbers and tax return.

The groups that questioned the Doge efforts argued that a large part of their work could be done with anonymized information that would protect the privacy of the Americans.

The lawsuit submitted by the unions of the federal government and a retire association is one of several who question access to the Doge access to closely guarded data systems in various federal authorities. Doge argued that the data needs it to implement “reform efforts” to combat fraud.

“The district court forces the executive to prevent employees who with the modernization of government information systems to access the data in these systems, since these employees do not” need such access “after the court judgment, the administration told the Supreme Court in its registration.

“The injunction with the SSA not only stops the critically important efforts of the executive to improve their information technology infrastructure and to eliminate waste,” continued the administration. “District court control on decisions about internal access to information also represents an inappropriate supervision of a sub -branch.”

The US district judge Ellen Hollander described DOGE efforts in March as a “fishing expedition” that “was looking for a fraud epidemic on the basis of little more than suspicion”.

As in many other cases in which DOGE's activities were questioned, the district judge was frustrated about how opaque the Musk initiative was.

In a hearing, Hollander asked the incumbent social security commissioner Leland Dudek to eliminate some inconsistencies in the government submissions, but the administration rejected the invitation.

The employees of Doge who work on social security need access to databases with personal information from people for the anti-Frag projects where they are working on and Dudek has written in explanations.

An effort with the name “Are you alive?” The project tries to ensure that the agency's records reflect exactly whether a person is alive or dead to eradicate improper payments and fraud that are related to deceased people. The employees of Doge need access to the social security numbers of people, demographic data, performance status and the contact information to do this work, wrote Dudek.

With the project of the death data, the notes of the people who have sufficiently trust the agency are to be updated. However, this also requires access to social security numbers, birth and death data and advantages information that could indicate whether the person still lives.

Another effort referred to as a fraud recognition project is the search for fraud in changes in direct deposit information, wage reporting and the new claims, which according to Dudek also requires access to databases with personal data.

This story has been updated with additional information.