Supreme Court Republicans: it is an emergency if white nationalist incels do not have immediate unfettered access to your sensitive personal data

Just how authoritarian are the Republicans on the Supreme Court? The shadow docket knows:

The Supreme Court handed the Department of Government Efficiency a pair of significant wins on Friday, allowing the entity to access sensitive Social Security data for millions of Americans while simultaneously pausing an effort to look into whether it is subject to a key transparency law.

In the first and perhaps more important decision, a majority of the court allowed DOGE to review data at the Social Security Administration in an ostensible effort to rout out fraud and “modernize outdated systems.” Critics and lower courts suggested DOGE was engaged in a fishing expedition through highly sensitive data.

“We conclude that, under the present circumstances, SSA may proceed to afford members of the SSA DOGE Team access to the agency records in question in order for those members to do their work,” the court wrote in an unsigned order.

Is there any legal basis for this stay, based on the Court’s own purported standards? Absolutely not:

The unsigned opinion intervening so that DOGE can get as much of your data to Peter Thiel as possible as quickly as possible irrespective of its legal authority to do so contains literally no legal reasoning at all:

“If Trump wants to do it, it’s legal” is a kind of legal doctrine, I guess.