Federal judge denies efforts to block DODE from accessing DOL -DATA Despite ‘Concerns’

A federal judge in a decision late Friday night denied efforts to block the Department of Government Efficiency to access sensitive data from the Ministry of Labor.

In his decision, federal judge John D. Bates found that the five federal staff associations that alleged Elon Musk’s cost -saving team tried to illegally have access to very sensitive data, including medical items, could not establish status.

“Although the court has concerns about the defendant’s alleged behavior, it must deny the plaintiffs’ proposals at this time,” Judge Bates said in his decision.

During the hearing, the plaintiffs’ lawyers claimed that if DOGE ACCESS TO DOL DATA, it would cause irreparable damage to their clients.

In his decision, however, Bates found that the applicants did not show that “at least one particular member is essentially likely to suffer an injury to the hands of the defendant.”

During Friday’s consultation, lawyers argued for the five unions that access to the data would also be in violation of the Privacy Act.

“We have demonstrated that the personal information in them has necessarily damaged that the personal information in them is necessarily in damage with the unveiling of sensitive information,” argued one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys. “It’s illegal.”

The Ministry of Justice claimed that Doge employees would have access to data needed to help the work department improve its information technology and data systems. The DOJ lawyer also claimed that Doge employees are authorized under the law of privacy and that they would not share data with anyone outside the agency, including other DODE employees.

Bates pushed back on doj lawyers and said they asked him to have “a great confidence in people who, according to public reports, are very young who have never been in the federal government who have never had any education with respect for The hands of Confidential Information.

“(You) asks me to just put absolute confidence that nothing will happen,” Bates said.

Attorneys for the unions said they were planning to change their complaint this weekend to include three other federal agencies: Health and Human Services, Department of Education and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

“The Department of Labor staff has been notified of undoubtedly giving DOGE operatives access to any system or information they request, or otherwise the closure of the facial,” the trial said, claiming that Dog’s behavioral pattern has been “filled with violations of the law. “

Musk’s private companies, including SpaceX and Tesla, have been investigated and fine by parts of the Ministry of Labor, and at least one of his companies is actively being investigated. Musk has denied all offense.

On Wednesday, in response to a lawsuit from several federal staff associations, lawyers with the Ministry of Justice accepted a temporary restriction order that would largely prohibit DODE from accessing the Treasury Department data.

As DOGE, according to the case, “reset and sought unprecedented access to sensitive information” from other federal agencies, including government bonds and educational department, raised the trial of the Musk’s entry into the Department of Labor because of the sensitivity of their items related to The administration of the compensation law of the federal employee.

According to the trial, the Labor Department Registers include damage reports for thousands of employees, medical items, requirements and personal information collected under the administration of FECA requirements.

The department also has registrations of at least 86,000 workers’ compensation requirements from 2024 alone, which could be violated by DOGE, the suit said.

“The threats to the Ministry of Labor, which gives rise to this action and use of relief, represent yet another iteration of what is quickly becoming a pattern for DODE: transcends its narrow mission and executive authority that it cannot (and cannot) possess by that Exercise control of agencies through personal attacks and threats of illegal reprisals and harm people and the stability of our nation in the process, ”the trial said.

In a court experience on Thursday, the Ministry of Justice claimed the lawyers who represented DOGE work for the department.

“The plaintiffs cannot establish standing, much less irreparable damage, to challenge the sharing of unspoken categories of information from unidentified items systems to unknown persons working in the executive branch,” their archiving said.

The trial also claimed that Musk – described as a “a non -designated, non -selected and temporarily serving official” – has tried to “run ruhod” over the work department at the same time it has active investigations pending in his private companies .

The Work Environment Administration – which falls within the work department – previously investigated and fined Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla for multiple security events, including one in connection with the death of a SpaceX employee. OSHA also has several open studies of Musk’s boring company.

“Mr. Musk would usually not be able to access non -public information about these investigations,” the trial said. “In the light of the carpet instruction to give the DODE staff ‘everything they want’, Mr. Musk or his employees will be able to access this information by simply asking DOL employees for it.”

The applicants ask the judge to issue a temporary restriction order that would prohibit the Ministry of Labor from sharing any items with DOGE.