Posted on 05/21/2025 1:30:45 PM PDT by DFG
his article was updated on May 21 at 2:38 p.m.
The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, once again asking the justices to take action on their emergency docket. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the court to temporarily pause an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that would require the Department of Government Efficiency to provide information in a lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act. Sauer told the justices that requiring DOGE as a “presidential advisory body” to respond to the plaintiffs’ requests, a process known as discovery, “clearly violates the separation of powers” and “will significantly distract” from DOGE’s “mission of identifying and eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government.”
Chief Justice John Roberts instructed CREW to file a response to the government’s request by noon on Friday, May 23.
President Donald Trump created DOGE on Jan. 20 to “further the President’s agenda by ‘modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.’” DOGE is not a cabinet-level department but has had sweeping involvement in the president’s efforts to shrink the federal government across agencies since he took office.
The Trump administration’s request on Wednesday stems from a Jan. 24 request made under FOIA by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog group. CREW sought, among other things, communications between the DOGE administrator, Amy Gleason, and DOGE staff, as well as financial disclosures submitted by DOGE personnel.
On Feb. 20, CREW filed a lawsuit under FOIA in federal court in Washington, D.C. It sought documents that, according to CREW, it wanted before Congress passed a bill to fund the federal government.
As the case comes to the court on Wednesday, it centers on CREW’s request for expedited discovery to determine whether DOGE is an “agency” that must comply with FOIA. CREW asked to depose Gleason as well as for a list of government contracts and grants that DOGE recommended be canceled, a list of employees and positions that DOGE recommended be terminated, and a list of current and former DOGE employees.
U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper largely granted CREW’s request, including the request to depose Gleason, and instructed DOGE to respond quickly.
Now the left is saying the Executive Branch can't do audits without exposing to the outside world every little thing.
When you are appointed to be a district judge you will go where you are told and not be put in into a judicial ghetto. Additionally, a qualifications exam should be given to ensure you know the law and know what a woman is.
How in the hell can voters of a state not have standing to file against the government in a voting-related case, but every scumbag POS leftard legal group does?
“ The federal judiciary should handle assignments like in the military. Your duty station changes every four or five years. You don’t get to choose your billet.”
From my experience it was more like every 2 to 3 years.
DOGE wasn’t “created” 1/20/2025.
United States Digital Service (USDS) was reorganized(repurposed) and renamed to DOGE via an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on January 20, 2025
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