The Justice Department urged a New York federal judge to roll back a judicial order over the weekend that restricted access to a critical Treasury Department payment system, with members of the Trump administration publicly contemplating resistance to judicial orders.
The order came amid a fast-moving legal battle over access to a system that handles trillions of dollars in payments each year, one of numerous lawsuits over actions taken by President Donald Trump and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency led by billionaire Elon Musk.
A coalition of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit late Friday over DOGE’s access to the payment system. Early Saturday, Judge Paul Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered that only career Treasury employees could access the system.
