Topline
Lawyers for the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to halt a lower court’s ruling requiring records from the Department of Government Efficiency, arguing DOGE should be exempt from Freedom of Information Requests and forcing records to be public would be “intrusive.”
An exterior view of the Supreme Court on June 20, 2024 in Washington, DC.
Key Facts
The request of the Supreme Court would stop all discovery in DOGE’s case, which the Trump administration said in its Wednesday filing is “extraordinarily overbroad and intrusive.”
One of the records the Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to keep private is the deposition of the DOGE Administrator, Amy Gleason.
A judge ruled in March that DOGE must provide documents and records in a lawsuit brought by nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington in order to determine whether or not DOGE is actually an agency that must comply with Freedom of Information Act requests.
This story is developing and will be updated.
What To Watch For
If the Supreme Court does not stay the lower court’s ruling, records must be produced in June.
Further Reading
Judge orders urgent release of DOGE records, citing ‘unprecedented’ power and ‘unusual secrecy’ (Politico)
