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FOIA News: DOJ asks SCOTUS to stay discovery in DOGE FOIA lawsuit

FOIA News (2025)Ryan MulveyComment

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to keep DOGE records secret

By Josh Gerstein & Kyle Cheney, Politico, May 21, 2025

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to block an effort to open the inner workings of the secretive DOGE cost-cutting effort to public scrutiny.

The Justice Department filed an emergency appeal Wednesday urging the high court to put a hold on a judge’s orders giving a watchdog group access to documents detailing firings, grant terminations and other actions proposed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which was overseen by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

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