Ein 2011 vom damaligen Präsidenten Obama nominierter Richter am Bundes-District Court für den Southern District des Bundesstaates New York hat in der Nacht von Freitag zu Samstag MEZ angeordnet:
„sufficient reason having been shown therefor, pending the hearing of the States’ application for a preliminary injunction […] the defendants [Präsident Trump u.a.] are
(i) restrained from granting access to 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, other than to civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties within the Bureau of Fiscal Services who have passed all background checks and security clearances and taken all information security training called for in federal statutes and Treasury Department regulations;
(ii) restrained from granting access to all political appointees, special government employees, and government employees detailed from an agency outside the Treasury Department, to 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; and
(iii) ordered to direct any person prohibited above from having access to such information, records and systems but who has had access to such information, records, and systems since January 20, 2025, to immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems, if any“
(https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609.6.0.pdf, S. 3; Hv. hinzugefügt)
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Anlaß dafür waren u.a.
- ein Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion for Temporary Restrainung Order
- ein Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief
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des Bundesstaates New York und weiterer Bundesstaaten sowie
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eine Ankündigung von Trump von kurz nach seiner erneuten Wahl, „that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new ‚Department of Government Efficiency‘ in his second administration. ‚Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,‘ Trump said in a statement.“ (CNN vom 12.11.2024)
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ein Bericht der Nachrichtenagentur Associated Press, wonach „Officials working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency sought access to the U.S. Department of Treasury payment system to stop money from flowing to the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to two people familiar with the matter.“
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ein Bericht des Magazine Wired, wonach ein „25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government […] sources say Elez, who has visited a Kansas City office housing BFS systems, has many administrator-level privileges. Typically, those admin privileges could give someone the power to log in to servers through secure shell access, navigate the entire file system, change user permissions, and delete or modify critical files. That could allow someone to bypass the security measures of, and potentially cause irreversible changes to, the very systems they have access to.“
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Der Guardian berichtet, das in Rede stehende „payment system handles tax refunds, social security benefits, veterans’ benefits and much more, sending out trillions of dollars every year while containing an expansive network of Americans’ personal and financial data“ (The Guardian vom 08.02.2025)
Bereits am Donnerstag hatte eine Richterin am District Court für den District of Columbia, die 1997 vom damaligen Präsideten Clinton nominiert worden war, folgende Order erlassen:
Für weitere Informationen zu den beiden Verfahren siehe:
District Court für den District of Columbia
ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS v. BESSENT (1:25-cv-00313)
Plaintiffs (Antragstellerinnen / Klägerinnen) sind dort die Alliance for Retired Americans, American Federation of Government Employees (AFL-CIO) und die Service Employees International Union (ebenfalls: AFL-CIO).
sowie
District Court für den Southern District des Bundesstaates New York
State of New York v. Donald J. Trump (1:25-cv-01144)
Informationen zu weiteren Verfahren wegen der DOGE-Aktivitäten sowie weiterer Executive Orders Trumps gibt es dort:
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/trumps-first-100-days#challenges.
