Supreme Court temporarily allows Trump administration to shield DOGE documents

[Eugene]

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily allowed the Trump administration to shield Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from freedom of information requests seeking thousands of pages of material.

Chief Justice John Roberts issued an administrative stay that puts lower court decisions on hold while the Supreme Court considers what next steps to take.

For now, it means the government will not have to respond to requests for documents and allow for the deposition of the DOGE administrator, Amy Gleason, as a lower court had ruled.

At issue in the ongoing litigation is whether DOGE, which has played a key role in firing government workers and cutting federal grants and spending, is technically a government agency and therefore subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which allows members of the public to seek internal documents.

The Trump administration says that, despite its name, DOGE is merely a presidential advisory body that is not subject to public records requests under FOIA.

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May 23, 2025, 3:26 PM EDT
By Lawrence Hurley and Gary Grumbach


Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-temporarily-allows-trump-administration-shield-doge-docu-rcna208628

[Passages]

1. Pathetic.

[Blues Heron]

2. they always cover for their little monster

[BumRushDaShow]

3. For some reason, I had already thought it was stayed

when I saw an earlier article mentioning this but maybe what I thought was stayed was related to something else.

But otherwise - they had put in an emergency request and their last filing was 5/21/25 - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143463579

[turbinetree]

4. Its alright to shield there illegal shit but its just fine and dandy for them rummage through

millions of other peoples files.................time to expand the court..............

[OldBaldy1701E]

19. Time to change the entire corrupted process.

But, I know that is asking too much from this nation, so...

[turbinetree]

27. WE can change the country we did it in the 60's and 70's...........

90 million people did not vote...............and this is what we got..................every world war 2 vet would be turning over in the grave right now if they saw what is happening............the pin head goes to West Point to speak about trophy wives..............how demeaning to woman..........and to top it all off Medicare has a pay has a you go in this bill................and will lose 535 million in finding in 2026............that just pisses me off............

[OldBaldy1701E]

29. I am not saying that we 'can't'.

I am saying that we won't.

THAT pisses me off. I have watched as we have accepted this constant shift towards greed and inhumanity with little more than some grumbling and we deny that the socioeconomic model that we are all living in is why it is happening..

But we won't consider changing it. That would make those people in power no longer have that power. They have programmed us to believe that it would be a disaster to consider revamping the entire model to remove the ability of money (and their power) to take over our government and our lives. Because that is why they are in power in the first place. You remove their wealth, they seldom have little redeeming qualities.

But, even with the reality staring us in the face, we refuse to even consider changing it.

So, we obviously want this. And, this all will happen again because we want it to.

[riversedge]

5. whow damm it!! The SC does not think we should know what is happening to our tax dollars!

[sakabatou]

6. Once again, the USSC is useless.

[DENVERPOPS]

14. Not to Trump and MAGA...................

With each day that passes, it is evident that the USSC is a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Republicans and Trump Inc's CABAL

The only redeeming thing for us.......is in the future........The Republican US Supreme Court and the U.S. Republican House and Senate
will be out of Jobs when all three are disbanded. There is no need for the Legislative Branch, or Judicial Branch in a
Dictatorship/Tyranny........

They will be thrown under the bus, just like the MAGA voters have been since the election.......as No longer needed..........

[WmChris]

7. More transparency

Most transparent ruling body ever.

[Uncle Joe]

8. DOGE wasn't giving advice to the different agencies, those were orders.

Thanks for the thread Eugene

[Karasu]

9. On what basis? What exactly makes DOGE so fucking special, when it doesn't even technically exist as a department?

Or an "advisory committee", for that matter?

[mpcamb]

10. And worst of all, none of them have been vetted! There's better security at my local bakery!

[Bayard]

12. They were not just advising that thousands of people be fired either

[bluestarone]

11. TSF is tearing the fabric of our country. Every win he gets from the courts gives his religious

BASE more reasons to actually believe he is the chosen one!! ( actually scary what he has already done) I gotta wonder even if we win BOTH houses what will stop him?

[republianmushroom]

13. roberts still sucking up to trump.

[wolfie001]

15. "Balls and strikes" motherfucker is at it again

POS. His wife too.

[Scarlet Begalas]

16. Supreme Court

Kind of sad, watching the Rethugs destroy our country, and not being able to do anything about it. Other than protest, of course, which I'll be doing a lot in the next few years.

[onenote]

17. It helps to understand the procedures at play here.

The initial request for a stay pending filed by DOGE was directed to Roberts as the Justice responsible for handling such requests arising out of the US District Court for the District of Columbia. If he had denied it, DOGE could have renewed its request in front of any Justice it chose -- including Thomas or Alito. They might have issued a more sweeping stay than the one issued by Roberts. So as is often the case, the stay issued by Roberts may be a defensive maneuver to keep control of the matter rather than leave it the hands of a Justice chosen by DOGE.

[TomSlick]

23. Thanks for your reply.

You are, of course, correct but it is difficult for people to understand the process or to see the long view.

[Phoenix61]

26. They can pick the judge they want to hear their case? nt

[onenote]

28. See page four, second paragraph

https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/reportersguide.pdf

[Bengus81]

18. Temporarily?? My ass. If DODGE did such a great job why does it need to shielded

from scrutiny?

[mdbl]

20. Just look on one of the gamer chat groups for info

Since that is who Eloon hires for everything.

[the_sly_pig]

21. John "Reek" Roberts. n/t

[travelingthrulife]

22. Why? These are public documents and if anything needs investigating, it's DOGE.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. Roberts wonders why there is less respect for the court yet continues to be Trump's errand boy

[GiqueCee]

25. John, John, John...

... you simple-minded fuck. And you wonder why people despise and mistrust the Supreme Court? Get this through your head: YOU. ARE. DOOMED! There isn't the remotest chance in Hell that conservatism, as people like you have perverted it, will EVER survive. The very foundations of conservatism's so-called "philosophy" are so sick, and so malicious toward those less fortunate than fucking billionaires, that those you delight in victimizing are about to make the French Revolution look like an episode of "Sesame Street", and your head will be one of the first on a pike.
You, and every conservative that Satan ever shat out, will pay for your obscene treachery.