"f judges can pick and choose when FOIA can be used after federal agencies stonewall, it becomes meaningless"
This means that Congress can go home and we can use the capital building for a museum or a library. The judges are making the law.
Factor in the dollar-sucking lawyers, and I think this country has a government of money, by money and for the money.
That last line is about as good a description as I can think of these days.