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US judge temporarily blocks #Musk's #DOGE from accessing #Treasury payment systems
A federal judge early Saturday temporarily blocked a #Trump admin panel led by #billionaire #ElonMusk from accessing government systems used to process trillions of dollars in payments, citing a risk that sensitive & confidential information could be improperly disclosed.
#law #NationalSecurity #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #USpol #TrumpCoup
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-temporarily-blocks-musks-doge-accessing-payment-systems-2025-02-08/
US District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan issued the order after a coalition of 19 mostly Democratic-led #US states filed a lawsuit late Friday arguing #ElonMusk's #DOGE has no #legal power to access the US Dept of #Treasury systems.
The lawsuit said #Musk & his team could [will] disrupt federal #funding for #health clinics, #preschools, #climate initiatives, & other programs, & that #Trump could use the info to further his #political agenda.
#DOGE's access to the system also "poses huge #cybersecurity risks that put vast amounts of funding for the States & their residents in peril," the state attorneys general said. They sought a temporary restraining order blocking DOGE's access.
The judge…said the states' claims were "particularly strong" & warranted him acting on their request for emergency relief pending a further hearing before another judge on February 14.
"That is both because of the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive & confidential information & the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to #hacking," Engelmayer wrote.
His order bars access from being granted to #Treasury Dept payment & data systems by #political appointees, special government employees [#SGE] & government employees detailed from an agency outside the Treasury Dept.
#law #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #Musk #Trump
A big question I have is how do we know that when one of our courts "blocks" the Republicans from doing something that they're going to actually be blocked from doing it since they don't seem to care about what our courts say if they disagree with them?
@Nonilex Who is enforcing it? Or is this just theater?
@Nonilex Door. Horse. Bolted.
Yes the order threatens legal implications if they don’t destroy what they’ve already taken, but how can that be enforced when no one knows who had access or took / copied what? Do they still have their own hardware connected to Treasury systems?