President Trump’s Justice Department moved Sunday evening to lift a judge’s expansive ruling that prevents non-civil servants from accessing the Treasury Department’s payment systems, such as Elon Musk, his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Treasury political appointees.

The temporary ruling in favor of 19 Democratic state attorneys general was met with scorn over the weekend from the White House and Musk, who called for the judge to be impeached. Vice President Vance responded that judges “aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”

In the new filing, the Justice Department raised alarm that the ruling could be understood to extend as far as preventing Treasury Secretary........

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