A challenge to the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to Americans’ personal information survived the administration’s bid to toss the lawsuit.
The government’s arguments that the plaintiffs lacked standing has been expressly rejected by the en banc Fourth Circuit in a separate case concerning DOGE’s access to Social Security data, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said Wednesday. And the administration’s assertions that the plaintiffs failed to state a claim have been rejected by several courts handling similar cases, Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. said.
Justice has been prompt as ever. At least we trade these long case lengths for having real consequences for people in power that will dissuade future law breaking. There’s something to look forward to in a year or so other than “that thing they already did was wrong”, right?
Unless the information is used to debank resistance.