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Ellen Hollander

Ellen Hollander

U.S. District Judge, District of Maryland

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Notable Quotes

"The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion."

"The issue here is not the work that DOGE or the Agency want to do, but rather how they want to do the work."

Stories

DOGE's unauthorized access to federal data systems

Rule Changes

Presiding over SSA v. AFSCME case

The Privacy Act of 1974 was written to prevent exactly this: government employees using federal databases containing Social Security numbers, health records, and bank account information for unauthorized purposes. For nearly a year, Department of Government Efficiency staffers did it anyway—copying the records of 300 million Americans to unsecured servers, sharing files with outside political groups, and coordinating with election-denial activists to match voter rolls against Social Security data.

Updated Jan 26