Supreme Court limits outside access to DOGE records
The high court said a judge’s directive allowing a watchdog group to examine DOGE’s recommendations for cost savings at executive branch agencies was “not appropriately tailored.”
By Josh Gerstein, Politico, June 6, 2025
The Supreme Court has reined in a lower-court order that allowed a watchdog group wide-ranging access to records of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency.
The high court’s majority said a judge’s directive allowing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington to examine DOGE’s recommendations for cost savings at executive branch agencies was “not appropriately tailored.”
In a two-page order Friday, the Supreme Court said such access was not a proper way to resolve an ongoing dispute about whether DOGE is a federal agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act or operates as a presidential advisory body that does not have to share its records with the public.
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