WASHINGTON >> Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled sympathy Wednesday toward a bid led by two Catholic dioceses to establish in Oklahoma the nation’s first taxpayer- funded religious charter school in a major test of religious rights and the separation of church and state in American education.

President Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to intervene in its bid to allow the Elon Musk-spearheaded Department of Government Efficiency unfettered access to the U.

An appeals court this week decided that the Department of Government Efficiency did not need access to sensitive Social Security data to carry out its functions.

A federal district court judge blocked DOGE from accessing sensitive information from the Social Security Administration.