Watchdog urges court to deny DOGE request to pause order for information in FOIA suit
This article was updated on May 23 at 3:43 p.m.
A government watchdog group on Friday urged the Supreme Court to deny the Trump administration’s request to 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. Lawyers for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington told the justices that, under the guise of seeking to put the “narrowly-tailored” order on hold, the government was actually asking the court to weigh in on whether DOGE is in fact a government agency subject to FOIA – the question, CREW said, at the center of the dispute.
On Friday afternoon, Chief Justice John Roberts entered an administrative stay in the case, which puts Cooper’s order on hold temporarily to give the court time to consider DOGE’s request.
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