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Trump asks Supreme Court to block orders requiring DOGE turn over documents


The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to block court orders requiring Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to turn over documents about its operations to a government watchdog group.

The Justice Department’s latest emergency appeal to the high court concerns whether DOGE, which has been central to President Donald Trump’s push to remake the government, is a federal agency that is subject to the Freedom of Information Act. In March, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper found that DOGE’s role is likely more than just advisory, noting its claims in helping to shutter USAID and cut billions of dollars in government contracts. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the justices to act quickly, calling Cooper’s orders “extraordinarily overbroad and intrusive.”

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