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President Joe Biden Tuesday ordered the National Archives to send the Trump White House visitor logs to a House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, rejecting former President Donald Trump’s executive privilege claims. In January, National Archives provided the Trump White House visitor logs to Biden’s White House. The documents [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union in Maine (ACLU) Friday filed suit against the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the US District Court for the District of Maine, alleging that USCIS failed to provide detailed information on unusual numbers of denials for asylum cases for certain African countries at the Boston asylum office. The [...]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday overturned a decision allowing the United States Justice Department to withhold records concerning former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates’ 2017 refusal to defend former President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting seven Muslim-majority nations. As one of his firsts acts as president, [...]

In a case addressing the extent of obligations owed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held on Friday that intelligence agencies are not required to confirm nor deny the existence of records relating to whether the agencies were aware of an imminent threat [...]

Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued a summary judgment Monday accusing then-Attorney General William Barr of misleading the court during the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for [...]

Following the release of a report on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in government, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Friday that they have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in order to gather details about how national security and intelligence agencies are using AI in ways that may violate people’s [...]

Judge Rudolph Contreras of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday dismissed a lawsuit from Nevada, Illinois and Virginia that sought government recognition of Virginia’s vote to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Contreras ruled that the deadline to pass the amendment had passed. The ERA was first proposed in 1972 [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Thursday to limit the scope of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by expanding the deliberative process privilege exception to the Act’s disclosure requirement to include “in-house drafts of biological opinions that are both predecisional and deliberative, even if the drafts reflect the agencies’ last views about a proposal.” The case, [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) demanding they release records tied to the Trump administration’s alleged purchase of cell phone data to track the locations of immigrants. The action is being brought under the [...]

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday unanimously approved legislation that will reform the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) aircraft certification process. This actions follows two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes within five months that killed 346 people. The House committee responsible for investigating the airplanes issued a preliminary report in March that identified errors and [...]