Breaking: USDC Judge Vargas In Manhattan Grants A Slightly Modified TRO -- Plaintiffs Win, Again! 0-16 For Tangerine 2.0.

As we expected, the able USDC Judge Vargas in Manhattan has sided with the plaintiffs and Judge Engelmeyer, and extended the TRO at Treasury, after an adversary hearing on the merits -- and full briefings. . . only slightly modified (as per an agreement entered just yesterday evening). It keeps politicos out of private Treasury payor/payee data snooping.

That means the unregistered lobbyist Elon Musk -- and all his minions. Here's that fine opinion of law (and a bit), entered just moments ago on the Manhattan USDC public docket:

. . .[T]o the extent that Defendants seek to eliminate the TRO’s restriction on access by “political appointees” more broadly, Defs. Mem. at 5-6, the Court denies the motion.

There was a sound factual basis for this central dimension of the TRO. The Complaint alleges that the challenged Agency Action includes granting “expanded access to BFS payment systems to political appointees and ‘special government employees’” affiliated with the Department of Government Efficiency. Compl., ¶ 5; see also id. ¶¶ 134, 135, 157, 158, 166, 174. And the harms alleged in the Complaint that Judge Engelmayer determined were sufficient to warrant the grant of the ex parte TRO are plainly linked to the alleged grant of access to the BFS payment systems to such political appointees and special government employees. . . .

Woot! Put that in your pipe -- and smoke it, dotard. 0-16 now.

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