Judge Temporarily Blocks Education Dept., OPM From Giving DOGE Sensitive Info
However, it does not apply to the Treasury Department or Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Maryland temporarily blocked the Education Department and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from giving DOGE access to sensitive information.
It lasts for two weeks.
However, it does not apply to the Treasury Department or Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Several plaintiffs, including unions, asked for the temporary restraining order (TRO).
They brought the lawsuit because they want to keep DOGE out of the student loan systems.
“It may be that, with additional time, the government can explain why granting such broad access to the plaintiffs’ personal information is necessary for DOGE affiliates at Education to do their jobs, but for now, the record before the Court indicates they do not have a need for these records in the performance of their duties,” wrote Boardman.
DOGE wants to clean house. Many of us non-leftists have had our eyes on the Education Department for a looooooong time.
Weirdly enough, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss in D.C. ruled that six DOGE agents getting “mere access” to data did not satisfy the irreparably harm factor needed to receive a TRO.
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democrats sure are determined to keep prying eyes from checking on their fraud.
Just hire two employees from Dept of Education to work for DGOGE.
Using my powerful new edit button I will fix the misspelled word in my comment:
“Just hire two employees from Dept of Education to work for DOGE.”
I use that button all the time!
I am glad that there is no edit function in this forum. It looks like it took you 20 minutes to ‘fix’ your thoughts. If you were allowed to change the original comment, someone else might have remarked on your original comment in the mean time. You might have changed the tenor of your comment or changed anything at all in your comment. The ‘someone else’ might have replied to your original thoughts, as you wrote them. Of course, the ‘someone else’ might be allowed to edit their comment on your original comment but that supposes that they notice your edit and are motivated to edit their reply. I prefer that if you have to edit your comment that it be the way it is now, reply to your comment with whatever you want. The ‘power’ of an edit function with the ability to change the conversation is not what I want. Most readers here could tell what you meant even with the typo.
@curiou_one:
OK, then let’s make it that it only edits for typos, and nothing else.
2015 OPM data breach.
Yep. Maybe DOGE should buy the information from the Chinese. Didn’t bother the bureaucracy when China has all their information.
No one said it would be easy. It is starting to look like Doge and Trump are inviting lawsuits to settle once and for all who is in charge of the Executive Branch.
Come on, OPM’s already given all my stuff to China!
My husband has received enough mail over the last 20 years from them about data breaches and at least one LifeLock subscription. What do they think Elon and DOGE are going to do that hasn’t already been done?
“What do they think Elon and DOGE are going to do that hasn’t already been done?”
Fire losers.
“…but for now, the record before the Court indicates they do not have a need for these records in the performance of their duties,” wrote Boardman.”
Look. Look at me. I am the expert now. Long live chevron doctrine!
It’s all so tiresome.
“Block Education Department From Giving Senitive Info?”
That’s probably the only department that doesn’t have any sensitive info.
….any sensitive info left that hasn’t already been compromised.
Evidence of their corruption is very sensitive.
Two weeks is a long time to throw stuff down the memory hole.
As a retired college professor, I constantly suggested to my college students to avoid the federal loan program. Find a family member or a bank to source your NECESSARY loans. Make a contract, even with family.
I explained before O took over the loans, that the interest from banks, at the time was reasonable. Maybe less – it’s been awhile. And that paying back the govt loan was at a higher rate. In addition, banks didn’t loan to high-risk students thus preventing defaults. And providing honesty..
Goal – get out of debt asap. Unfortunately, Biden really socked it to American taxpayers, and those college students, because with the fed system, all end up paying for the loans of others.
“Goal – get out of debt asap. Unfortunately, Biden really socked it to American taxpayers”
Transfer debt from Peter to Paul.
Student debt for, in many cases, useless non-practical degrees that no one outside of academia wants or needs.
Time to go back to the Supreme Court and ask Roberts to resolve this issue once and for all rather than avoid ruling on it.
I suspect the worry at Dept of Ed isn’t simple intransigence but how and whether the classification of loans and their statutory eligibility for various forgiveness programs was followed. Same sorts of eligibility issues for Pell Grant to Students and program Grants. Then there’s the basic data on Student graduation rates and debt burden from each Univ, College, JR College, VoTech. The ED establishment doesn’t want their performance made public in an easily accessible format which may show they have similar outcomes to some ‘diploma mills’.
Okay, you put your finger on the sensitive info.
I think its worse than this at a basic level.
The Judge is saying the Dept of Education doesnt have to share that data with the President of the United States of America. As the Chief Executive of America the Judge has determined that only the judge can say who can access the data, not the boss of America.
Or put it this way, its like the Judge gas determined that the CEO of Big Bubba Gump Shrimp Company is not allowed to look at the sales data from the Fish department because the Judge has determined they are the ones who decides to get to see the Fish Departments sales figures.
You’re preaching to the choir. IMO the President is the unitary Executive and if he chooses to appoint subordinates to review data, processes and procedures to find ways to streamline gov’t, make it less costly and more efficient he can absolutely do so. Everyone arguing against this is spitting into the wind of ART 2.
Yet we still are putting up with these A holes.
The judge – Boardman, a recent Biden-appointee – is the same judge who blocked Trump’s Birthright Citizenship order and blocked DOGE in an earlier case. She’s also a self-described ‘Palestinian’ (even though she was born in Maryland).
She also ruled against parents looking to prevent their children from being shown sexually graphic LGBT+ materials. That case is Mahmoud v. Taylor and is still be litigated in the appellate courts and has (I believe) been granted cert by SCOTUS. Interestingly, the principal plaintiffs in that case are Muslim and have been joined by a number of Catholic and Christian plaintiffs.
She says she’s Palestinian? Send her home.
What her Honor fails to realize is that the President can look at or have his minions look at anything in the Executive,
This legal tactic is called “resist, delay and obstruct.”
Trump should ignore the courts, which are clearly infringing upon his Article II authority. Nobody has authority to prevent a POTUS from exercising his authority. “Does the POTUS have complete, unreviewable authority over the executive branch?” is a political question that was answered when the Constitution was ratified.
Commenters here correctly stated that nothing could be done about Biden’s pardons because as POTUS he had complete and unreviewable authority to make them. Like the power to pardon, the POTUS’ authority over the executive branch is shared with no other branch, department, agency, or office. Like the pardon, there is no designated oversight authority. Like the pardon, a POTUS’ executive decisions are unreviewable.
Sensitive Info is demspeak for evidence of blatant fraud
OPM.
“The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained by the United States Office of Personnel Management.”
Democrats are concerned about American auditors when our data was compromised by Chinese hackers.
What hackers? Obama’s administration hired a Chinese firm to run the OPM systems. They didn’t have to hack anything — we gave them the passwords.
Where is the harm for a government agency to have names to match to information to make sure loans went to actual live human beings? It seems that trying to prevent that type of audit is a huge red flag for fraud.
I’m wondering whether the janitorial staff of this judges court are employees of the executive branch. If so I’d “temporarily” transfer them elsewhere. Same for any other staff associated with the court but employees of the executive. It be a shame if that judge couldn’t get paid for a few weeks but we working on fixing it really hard.
So once again an un-elected, activist U.S District Court Judge presumes to intrude upon the Executive Branch and dictate to the President and Chief Executive exactly how he is to run the Executive Branch. Would someone please explain to me again how this is in any manner constitutional because I can’t for the life of me figure it out myself.
Trump has got to start ignoring these judges
I agree, and thoroughly humiliate each judge by name.
I don’t even care. Battering ram is on the door. Bang Bang Bang.
They are soooo done.
If you watch Archer (when it was good) = this is where he yells “woo hoo” during a rampage.
Also- I hope they have REALLY gotten the secret service squared away. Because if they hated Trump before… they are hating him at 11 now.
All of this lawfare is only temporary and the left knows it. This is being done so that the Dems appear to be fighting back. Once the judges have to defend their TRO to the appellate courts, it will end.
Oh look another Democrat judge ruling Trump’s people can’t be permitted to do their job if it imperils Democrat interests!