Judge Halts Access to Treasury Payment Systems

Judge Halts Access to Treasury Payment Systems by Elon Musk's Team

The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general
accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation's
laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.
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Judge Engelmayer ordered any such official who had been granted access
to the systems since Jan. 20 to "destroy any and all copies of
material downloaded from the Treasury Department's records and
systems." He also restricted the Trump administration from granting
access to those categories of officials.
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Representatives for the defendants -- President Trump, Treasury
Secretary Scott Bessent and the Treasury Department -- must appear on
Feb. 14 before Judge Jeannette A. Vargas, who is handling the case on
a permanent basis, Judge Engelmayer said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/nyregion/attorneys-general-trump-musk-suit.html

accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation's laws

That's "heavy" language
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The situation could pose a fundamental test of America's rule of law.
If the administration fails to comply with the emergency order, it is
unclear how it might be enforced. The Constitution says that a
president "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed," but
courts have rarely been tested by a chief executive who has ignored
their orders.

Federal officials have sometimes responded to adverse decisions with
dawdling or grudging compliance. Outright disobedience is exceedingly
rare. There has been no clear example of "open presidential defiance
of court orders in the years since 1865," according to a Harvard Law
Review article published in 2018.