“The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion,” U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander said in an order obtained by the Daily Beast.

A federal judge said on Thursday the Social Security Administration likely violated privacy laws by giving tech billionaire Elon Musk's aides "unbridled access" to the data of millions of Americans, and ordered a halt to further record sharing.

In a scathing ruling on Thursday, a federal judge wrote that DOGE “essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion.”

A U.S. judge has been cleared of alleged wrongdoing for going on CNN to speak out against threats made against members of the judiciary and respond to Donald Trump's comments about the daughter of the judge who presided over the New York case in which the now-president was convicted last year.

U.S. District Judge Esther Salas shares her reaction to President Trump's threats on impeaching judges who have ruled against the administration with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace. Trump called for the impeachment of U.

Federal Judge James Boasberg granted the administration additional time as he determines whether it ignored his order regarding deportation flights over the weekend. President Trump called Boasberg a ‘radical left’ judge and has escalated his criticism of the federal judiciary.