US Supreme Court keeps DOGE records blocked in watchdog group's challenge
Source: Reuters
June 6, 2025 5:09 PM EDT Updated 13 min ago
June 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court extended on Friday its block on judicial orders requiring the Department of Government Efficiency to turn over records to a government watchdog group that sought details on the entity established by President Donald Trump and previously spearheaded by his billionaire former adviser Elon Musk.
The court put on hold Washington-based U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper's orders for DOGE to respond to requests by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington for information about its operations. The judge concluded that DOGE likely is a government agency covered by the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The brief, unsigned order said that portions of one of the judge's decisions "are not appropriately tailored" and that "separation of powers concerns counsel judicial deference and restraint in the context of discovery regarding internal Executive Branch communications." The court sent the case back to a lower appeals court to narrow the judge's directives.
The court's three liberal justices - Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson - dissented from Friday's decision.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-keeps-doge-records-blocked-watchdog-groups-challenge-2025-06-06/
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Midnight Writer
(24,132 posts)More topsy-turvy bullshit, all designed to make the boy-king smile.
yellow dahlia
(2,471 posts)And they dropped these two "decisions" late on Friday afternoon.
IMO six of the justices are actively betraying the American citizenry AND the rule of law.
travelingthrulife
(2,490 posts)Lovie777
(18,755 posts)I think musk have the ace of spade royal flush on this.
BurnDoubt
(596 posts)sinkingfeeling
(55,339 posts)dchill
(42,505 posts)With their teeth.
wolfie001
(5,198 posts)The a-holes will go to any length to cover for the fat felon. I think they're hoping jeesus makes an 11th hour appearance so they can all be "saved". Praise the lawd.
moniss
(7,407 posts)that the Reich Wing of the USC is saying that DOGE can have every scintilla of information about us but we can't see anything about them.
FakeNoose
(37,582 posts)"Supreme Court lets DOGE access sensitive Social Security Administration information"









yellow dahlia
(2,471 posts)Meanwhile FOIA dictates that we should have access to what they are doing.
How do you make a jumping up and down apoplectic emoji/classic smilie?
FakeNoose
(37,582 posts)
And this one

travelingthrulife
(2,490 posts)We can't see what the DOGE criminals are up to but they can see our sensitive data.