Federal Judge Smacks Down Trump in Blistering Letter

A federal judge from Maryland, Judge Ellen Hollander, just sent a blistering letter to the Trump regime telling them to cease and desist from misrepresenting her order, which stated that the Doge group, headed by Elon Musk, is not entitled to access broad swaths of private information held within the Social Security Administration. The Trump regime, through its acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration named Leland Dudek, is saying that as a result of this order, Social Security is going to have to be shut down, that they don't know how to act.
They have to give all of their documents to Elon Musk. And because of this federal ruling, they may have to shut down Social Security immediately.
And the judge is saying, that's not what I said. I just said, don't share it with the Doge group, Elon and Big Balls and whatever that group is.
You can still function and do the same job you've always done at the Social Security Administration under the Privacy Act. Stop compromising people's privacy by giving them sensitive data to Elon Musk.
There's headlines like this from the Washington Post. Acting Social Security head consults with Justice Department on threat to close the agency.
Leland Dudek argues that a ruling blocking Elon Musk's cost-cutting team from access to sensitive taxpayer data could apply to all employees unless they need to shut it down. We know their plan is to shut it down.
They've been saying it, and this is the pretext that they're trying to use. Let me show you the letter that was just sent by Judge Hollander.
Here's what she writes to the counsel right here, the Department of Justice, who's representing the Trump regime. Dear counsel, I write with respect to the temporary restraining order issued yesterday afternoon in the above caption case, among other things, except under conditions described in the order.

the temporary restraining order, and joins and restrains the United States Social Security Administration, SSA, Leland Dudek, and Michael Russo from granting access to non-anonymized

personally identifiable information in any SSA system of record to the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, the United States DOGE Service, the United States DOGE Service Temporary Organization, members of the Doge team at the SAA, Elon Musk, Amy Gleason, and Doge affiliates as defined in the order. Conversely, paragraph two of the order expressly allows the SSA, the Social Security Administration, to provide access to redacted or anonymized data and records to the DOGE team subject to proper training and the like.
Notably, paragraph 3 of the TRO permits the SSA to provide non-anonymized data to the DOGE team subject to certain conditions. The court is aware of several news reports claiming that acting Social Security Administrator Dudik believes that virtually all employees of the Social Security Administration fall within the scope of the order, including his IT staff and his anti-fraud team.
And according to the news reports, Mr. Dudek apparently believes he is required to terminate their access to SSA's IT systems in order to comply with the order.
Such assertions about the scope of the order are inaccurate. Employees of SSA who are not involved with the Doge team or in the work of the Doge team are not subject to the order.
A DOGE affiliate is defined in the order, inter alia, which means among other things, as a person working on implementing the DOGE agenda. Moreover, any suggestion that the order may require the delay or suspension of benefit payments is incorrect.
However, if the government has any concern about the text of the order or otherwise seeks clarification of it, I instruct government counsel to contact chambers immediately to arrange a telephonic conference with counsel. Despite the informal nature of this letter, it is an order of the court and the clerk

is directed to file it on the docket as such. So now we're seeing federal judges have to come out with letters, this is unprecedented, to stop the fire hose of disinformation, misinformation, and lies from the Trump regime, from Elon Musk and others, especially as the acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek is using it as pretext to do what they wanted to do all along, which is shut down Social Security.
Now, how do I know they want to shut down Social Security and the Social Security Administration?

Well, listen to what they're saying.

Look at what they are posting. Look at what they are doing.
Even right now, regardless of this order, the Trump regime is shutting down 47 Social Security Administration offices throughout the country. So if you need to show up at a Social Security Administration office and have an in-person meeting, and usually it's going to be people who need the office to be closer to them because they're older, usually it's going to be hard to travel.
And thus, if you can't get there, you're not going to be able to get your benefits efficiently or at all. and also, they're gutting thousands and thousands of people who work at the Social Security Administration.
Look, even this MAGA Republican Congress member, Mike Lawler, who serves the Hudson Valley in New York, he knows that he just screwed over his constituents by giving a blank check to Elon Musk to gut Social Security because Elon Musk is now getting rid of the Social Security hearing office in his district, and he's a MAGA Republican, and it's a swing district. I want to share this with you as well.
This is Trump's Commerce Secretary from this past week, Howard Lutnick, saying if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law, who's 94, wouldn't complain. And if you complain that you didn't receive a Social Security administration or your Social Security check and you missed a month, that would indicate in his mind that you're a felon, that you're a fraud, because only frauds, he said, would complain about not getting their social security check.
Look at what he says. This is what he says.
Play the clip. Let's say social security didn't send out their checks this month.
My mother-in-law, who's 94, she wouldn't call and complain. She just wouldn't.
She thinks something got messed up and she'll get it next month. A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling, and complaining.
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Here, Trump's Commerce Secretary.

By the way, did I mention that he's a billionaire?

He's a billionaire oligarch?

And here he is saying that, no, no, no, no, no.

We should not be more empathetic to the people who are being hurt by Doge. No way we should be more empathetic.
Play this clip. Before we get there, I want to ask one last question on the cuts.
Can we speak in an, do we need to speak in a more empathetic way because that trillion dollars of spending flows into someone's pocket? Some percentage of that pays people a salary and they live on that income. And I think a lot of the...
No, no. Okay, I think this is important for you to highlight because a lot of people are reacting.
I can keep showing you these, but I think you get the point. Here's Elon Musk, who runs Doge, even though he and the Trump regime now claim someone named Amy Gleason is the person who runs doge so here's the richest man in the world saying that social security is the biggest ponzi scheme of all time when he's on the joe rogan show who launders this filth and oligarchy play this clip well i mean the government's one big permit scheme if you ask me yeah well you you can tell me social security is is the biggest ponzi scheme of all time right explain that oh so um well people pay into social security um and and the money goes out of social security immediately but the obligation for social security is uh your entire retirement career so you're you're paying uh with your the kind of people you're, like if you look at the future obligations of Social Security, it far exceeds the tax revenue.
Far. Have you ever looked at the debt clock? Yes.
Okay. There's our present day debt, but then there's our future obligations.
So when you look at the future obligations of Social Security, the actual national debt is like double what people think it is because of the future obligations. So basically, people are living way longer than expected.
And there are fewer babies being born. So you have more people who are retired and get that live for a long time and get retirement payments.
So the future obligation. So however bad the financial situation is right now for the federal government, it will be much worse in the future.
Going back to the initial order from the federal judge, federal judge Ellen Hollander, here was the initial order that the Trump regime tried to use as pretext to shut down the Social Security Administration. Here's how it was described by the federal judge, and this is from March 20th of 2025.
The judge goes, this case is one of a dozen of lawsuits filed since the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump on January 20th, challenging a wide swath of executive orders as well as implementation of them.
In particular, this case concerns the decision of the Social Security Administration to provide 10 anonymous individuals affiliated with the Department of Government Efficiency with unfettered access to the Social Security Administration records of millions of Americans. Quote, we've just never seen anything like it, proclaimed plaintiffs' counsel at a motion hearing held on March 14th.
Defense counsel acknowledged that the hearing, that the Social Security Administration has indeed provided DOGE affiliates with access to a massive amount of records, but counsel claimed that such access is needed so that the DOGE personnel can search for improper or fraudulent payments made by SSA. Ironically, the identity of these DOGE affiliates has been concealed because defendants are concerned that the disclosure of even their names would expose them to harassment and invade their privacy.
The defense does not appear to share a privacy concern for the millions of Americans whose SSA records were made available to the DOGE affiliates without their consent and which contain sensitive, confidential, and personally identifiable information. As used here, personally identifiable information means information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, either alone or when combined, with other information that is linked or linkable to a specific individual.