The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday blessed plans by the Trump administration to give the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to sensitive Social Security Administration (SSA) data.

Acting on an application for a stay , a majority of justices voted to overturn an injunction issued in mid-April by Baltimore-based U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander, a Barack Obama appointee, barring DOGE from accessing the non-anonymized personal data at issue.

The district court previously issued a temporary restraining order barring DOGE staffers from accessing the data as well as demanding they “disgorge and delete” any personally identifying data in their possession and remove any software or code the group may have installed or altered on SSA computer systems. A long series of failed attem

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