A federal judge early on Saturday blocked Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) from accessing treasury department records that contain sensitive personal data such as social security and bank account numbers for millions of Americans.
US district judge Paul A Engelmayer issued the preliminary injunction after 19 Democratic attorneys general sued Donald Trump. The case, filed in federal court in New York city, alleges the Trump administration allowed Musk’s team access to the treasury department’s central payment system in violation of federal law.
Isn’t this a classic case of too little, too late?
Let’s see if he can enforce it…
Too late. They already setup their own servers and probably a backdoor.
My only hope in this is that these agencies always have backups available to restore the original code and undo the damage to the servers. Since all of their code was being done on live servers and completely unvetted, none of it can be trusted so all of it needs to be wiped out for security reasons.
The other bonus is that Musk is going to be tied up in court cases for years. Any time there is the slightest appearance of unauthorized knowledge against one of his competitors, they are going to bring up the question in court as the whether or not he followed the court order to destroy all of the information he illegally accessed. One can hope this leads to a series of devastating blows against any of his new business deals.
They own the courts. R’s have been gerrymandering and stacking the courts for decades.
Certainly not all of them, and I believe the defendants have the ability to choose the court district where the case is held. Looks how often Musk has used Texas courts to get his way.
