Federal judge blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Treasury records
The federal judge temporarily blocked Doge Elon Mask from access In the center of the city pressField
Order in response to a lawsuit filed yesterday in the Southern District Court of New York. The lawsuit claims that the administration exceeded its powers, violated the law on administrative procedures in the United States and violated the US Constitution doctrine regarding the authorities when it provided DOGE access to the federal system of treasury payments.
The Order of the District Judge Paul A. Engelmeyer currently prohibits the Trump administration ”to provide access to all political appointments, special civil servants and civil servants, details from the agency outside the treasury department, to any payment records of the treasury, payment systems or any other data system Supported by the Ministry of Treasury, containing personal information and/or confidential financial information of the Priva. ”
Engelmeyer also orders that those who are prohibited, gain access to records, “immediately destroy any and all copies of materials loaded from the records and systems of the Ministry of Finance” from January 20, 2025. The hearing is scheduled for February 14.
In the press releasing the trial on Friday, the general prosecutor of New York Letizia James, who filed a lawsuit, explained:
President Trump does not have the authority to distribute private information to the Americans to anyone, who he chooses, and he cannot reduce federal payments approved by Congress. Mask and DOG do not have the right to access the private information of the Americans and some of the most confidential data from our country.
General lawyers from these other states joined James in the lawsuit: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Meng, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Rod -Iland, Vermont and visconsin.
The lawsuit is one of the Trump administration against the administration since he took office, including a separate, and not the access of the DOGA to the treasury records filed on February 3. Responding to other judicial claims, federal judges also blocked Trump’s executive order, aimed at citizenship by law, and one calls him “clearly unconstitutional”.