A federal judge will consider Friday whether to block Elon Musk’s team from accessing systems at the Labor Department, which has investigated SpaceX and Tesla.
Three unions asked Judge John Bates, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, to keep DOGE workers out of systems that also contain sensitive information about workers who have filed complaints and about Musk’s corporate rivals.
“DOGE is violating multiple laws, from constitutional limits on executive power, to laws protecting civil servants from arbitrary threats and adverse action, to crucial protections for government data collected and stored on hundreds of millions of Americans,” wrote labor union lawyers represented by the advocacy group Democracy Forward.
The Justice Department said the unions are just speculating and haven’t shown that the three DOGE employees detailed to cut the Department’s costs will have such access.
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