A federal judge has just blocked Elon Musk and his DOGE team from accessing the Treasury payment system after leftwing state AGs sued to prevent it.

The restraining order is temporary for now and it applies to all political appointees, special government employees, and government employees from outside the Treasury department.

Here’s more from NBC News:

A federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked political appointees and special government employees, including those who work for the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing sensitive and confidential information stored within the Treasury Department.

The decision comes after 19 state attorneys general sued the federal government on Friday, alleging that tech mogul Elon Musk and his DOGE staffers had no authority to access Treasury Department data that includes Americans’ social security numbers and other confidential financial information.

U.S. District Judge Judge Paul A. Engelmayer issued the temporary restraining order, which blocks the government from “granting access to all political appointees, special government employees, and government employees detailed from an agency outside the Treasury Department, to any Treasury Department payment record, payment systems, or any other data systems maintained by the Treasury Department containing personally identifiable information and/or confidential financial information of payees.”

Engelmayer’s order also requires anyone in those groups who may have had previous access to this sensitive data since Trump took office to “to immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems.”

A hearing has been set for February 14 for arguments on the attorneys general’s request for a preliminary injunction in the case.

In case you were wondering, Judge Judge Paul A. Engelmayer is an Obama appointee. Hopefully the DOJ will appeal this restraining order so that DOGE can continue to do its job.