Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block disclosure in FOIA fight over Musk's DOGE

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON − The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to intervene in its fight to prevent DOGE from being subject to open records laws.

In an emergency request filed on May 21, the Justice Department asked to pause judicial orders requiring DOGE produce documents and testimony so a federal court can determine whether the Department of Government Efficiency started by Elon Musk must comply with the Freedom of Information Act.

The administration argues DOGE is a presidential advisory body so is exempt from the nation's premier public disclosure law.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, is suing DOGE, arguing it's provided "no meaningful transparency into its operations or assurances that it is maintaining proper records."



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What's he trying to hide?

[C_U_L8R]

1. Advisory? Yeah. right.

This is a weaponized department hellbent of retribution and destruction. There's no advising, just breaking and intimidating.

[belpejic]

2. Plenty

Disclosure would probably reveal that Musk stole the data for his AI and significantly harmed the U.S. government's ability to function properly. "A" is what Musk wanted; "b" is what Russell Vought and his psychopaths wanted.

[magicarpet]

3. Let's not forget there were multiple federal investigations going on ...

..... at various branches of government. First thing on Musk's list was to trash those investigations, trash the investigator's files, and trash the people who were involved in any investigations against eLoon.

Then to suck up all the files at various agencies where Musk's companies were involved in competitive biding to win large government contracts. Seize the bids of competitors then re-tool Musk's bids so he could now win the valuable contracts.

Access to the inside proprietary information from the bids of his competitors made winning new bids much easier for Musk. Plus the proprietary files included detailed information about his competitors that should not have gone public. That gave Musk an upper hand over his competitors to gain access to this private info.

Then finally Musk wanted all the government information from their extensive databases with voluminous private info about the citizenry. This data was worth billions on the open market to setup Artificial Intelligence systems.

[WinstonSmith4740]

4. What's he trying to hide?

Everything. None of anything he's done, including DOGE itself, is legal.

[Karasu]

5. What the fuck is it about that DOGE that somehow allows it to be exempt from fucking everything when it doesn't even

legally exist? It's not an actual department and never went through the process to become one, and you can't just proclaim it's an "advisory committee" after the fact just because Trump fucking said so. There's nothing about it that even remotely justifies such special treatment.

How the fuck do Republicans even defend this shit?

[orangecrush]

6. What are you afraid of, fuckface?

[littlemissmartypants]

7. Wasn't this for the 15th or 16th time?

[moniss]

8. Basically there are likely few

hard copy documents and that would be by their crooked designs to keep people from knowing their actions as much as possible. The text messages were likely on Signal etc. and then wiped clean. They should, but won't be, required to provide a listing of all laptops, drives etc. where they have stored information along with where those have been, who was given access, where they are now and who operated and now controls each one.