Trump admin refuses to produce high-ranking official to testify about controversial use of 'death master file'

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Source: Law & Crime

Apr 15th, 2025, 11:49 am


The Trump administration had rejected a federal judge’s request to make the acting Social Security Administration (SSA) commissioner available for a hearing on whether to issue a preliminary injunction barring the agency from granting the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to the personally identifiable information of millions of Americans.

The decision to prevent acting SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek from testifying comes on the heels of the administration adding more than 6,000 living migrants to the SSA’s “death master file” — effectively canceling their social security number — in an effort to force them to self-deport.

The death master file is used to keep track of individuals who die and should no longer receive benefits. The migrants who were recently added to the list had been in the U.S. legally, but had their status revoked by the administration, according to reporting from The New York Times. The repurposing of the list would leave the “financial lives” of those on it “terminated,” Dudek reportedly wrote in an email to staff.

Attorneys for the Justice Department on Monday informed U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander of Maryland that instead of allowing Dudek to testify, they will “rest their opposition to Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction on the information contained in briefing, stated at oral argument, and in the administrative record produced by the Social Security Administration.”

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Full headline: ‘Unheard of and improper’: Trump admin refuses to produce high-ranking official to testify about controversial use of ‘death master file’ in pressuring migrants to self-deport

[Ishedeadyet]

1. The problem with this is, of course. . .

. . . That MAGA and Republicans will argue that if they are immigrants they never should have been here in the first place and definitely shouldn’t have SSNs. Because to a MAGA an immigrant is not a real person but rather a rodent that has infested the MAGA castle. They should be extinguished. Terminated. Out of sight and out of mind and a MAGA doesn’t care how. Starve? Deport? Murder? Disappear? Deport? Makes no difference to a MAGA. That is how we arrived where we are at. People have lost their humanity. And that may be the saddest part of all.

[vapor2]

2. WICKEDNESS, EVIL, CRUEL ETC ETC

He needs to appear and answer questions anywho. Cowards

[ReRe]

12. Now if you or I

had failed to appear before a Federal Judge when ordered to, boys and girls, where would WE be?

[mpcamb]

3. So, that sawed-off twirp Musk gets it, but a Federal judge doesn't???

[Iamscrewed]

4. Intent

Heads in the sand with intent.

[moonshinegnomie]

5. the judge should then just order the SSA to undo what they did to the master file

and provide proof they undid it. else contempt charges

its time for judges to start leveling contemp charges against every official they can.
start locking them up. ideally in the worst prisons available

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9. Someone needs to do something period

[slightlv]

6. Okay... if any of us did this, we'd be held in contempt, right?

Hold Ludneck in contempt and send the federal marshals after him. trump may get him out, one way or another, or he may throw a hissy fit to the SCOTUS. Let him. *They* are the ones who don't want to follow the processes.... we're the ones who are demanding that processes be followed (which is what I reason is the point of judge wishy-washiness. No playing favorites anymore with who gets do-overs or "forget me's" where contempt citations are concerned. The rich and the famous, the good and the evil both, need to get what's coming to them if they screw around like this.

And WHERE is one of those Jihadi marksman when you need them?!

[PSPS]

7. LOL. "send the federal marshals" You mean the service that's under bondi and reports to trump?

[slightlv]

11. Yippers.. ya got my goat! (LOL)

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8. Sue him, class action lawsuit maybe

ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.

[wolfie001]

10. This is why Big McFatty wants all those Law Firms to do Pro Bono work for his shit administration

Everything they're doing is illegal.