New York Attorney General Letitia James is celebrating a quick victory against the Trump administration and the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) in a lawsuit filed late Friday.
Leading a 19-state coalition, the Empire State Democrat sued the federal government to stop a group of special employees, led by Elon Musk, from accessing sensitive Treasury Department data.
Mere hours after the lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the plaintiffs secured a temporary restraining order that was granted blocking such access – and then some.
On top of being prohibited from accessing “any Treasury Department payment record, payment systems, or any other data systems maintained by the Treasury Department containing personally identifiable information and/or confidential financial information of payees,” the Musk-aligned employees must also “destroy” any copies of documents previously downloaded, according to the court order.
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