In the Friday decisions, Supreme Court justices said they will allow the group to access Social Security Administration data it had been seeking and halted any forced compliance with a FOIA request from a government watchdog group.
The court ruled 6-3 in both cases, with the liberal wing of the high court dissenting.
DOGE to access Social Security Administration records
In the Social Security case, DOGE, which seeks to modernize and cut government spending, requested data from the Social Security Administration to achieve its goals. The DOGE team assigned to the agency should have “access to the agency records in question in order for those members to do their work,” according to the order.
Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a dissenting opinion questioning
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