Calif. Students File Additional Response Against in DOGE Privacy Fight
The University of California Student Association renewed its call Thursday for a temporary restraining order against the U.S. Department of Education’s disclosure of personal information to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), in response to an opposition motion filed Thursday by Acting Secretary of Education Denise Carter (see 2502130037).
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The association said it isn't trying to impose preferred policies through litigation. “Rather, Plaintiff is seeking to enforce the policies enacted by Congress and signed into law by prior Presidents. Even if the President disagrees with those duly enacted laws, Article II of the Constitution provides no authority to disregard them. To the contrary, Article II requires the President to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.’”
The students filed a complaint against the Education Department on Feb. 7 for the unlawful and continuous disclosure of sensitive information in department records to DOGE (see 2502100074). The association asked the court for a restraining order enjoining the education department from continuing to share sensitive information with DOGE and to retrieve and safeguard the information that was already shared.
The court mustn't engage with the government's "remarkable (and frightening) argument that the President is not only himself free to disregard federal privacy laws, but also that he may direct others to do so, because Defendants have not produced any evidence that the President, who is not a party here, has actually done so,” the association said.