CREW sues US DOGE Service to compel transparency – includes all related legal documents. “…May 14, 2025. The DC Circuit Court ruled unanimously—with judges appointed by both Democrats and Republicans—that DOGE must submit to discovery. Read it here….US DOGE Service wields shockingly broad power over all manner of federal operations—which far exceeds its limited legal authority. In just four weeks, USDS has executed a potentially unlawful plan to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, taken credit for the cancellation of billions of dollars in federal contracts, secured potentially illegal access to systems containing highly restricted and confidential data and enlisted and claimed authority to summon federal law enforcement. The American people have a right to know how USDS is managing their tax dollars and their data, how it is exercising its authority to influence government operations and the extent to which it is operating outside of its slim legal mandate. And they have a right to know that information about USDS, which was created to make extreme cuts to the government at all costs, before Congress must decide how to fund the government when current funding ends on March 14…”

Politico: “The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to block an effort to open the inner workings of the secretive DOGE cost-cutting effort to public scrutiny. The Justice Department filed an emergency appeal Wednesday urging the high court to put a hold on a judge’s orders giving a watchdog group access to documents detailing firings, grant terminations and other actions proposed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which was overseen by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Solicitor General John Sauer is also asking the Supreme Court to block a deposition of the obscure official the Trump administration has identified as the leader of the budget-cutting drive: DOGE administrator Amy Gleason. The appeal is the latest in more than a dozen expedited requests the administration has brought to the Supreme Court in the first four months of President Donald Trump’s second term. The myriad requests have sought the justices’ quick intervention to block preliminary lower-court rulings on everything from Trump’s immigration agenda to his layoff plans for federal workers. One other emergency appeal pending before the justices also relates to DOGE: a bid by the administration to give DOGE access to sensitive Social Security data. Wednesday’s appeal comes in a case in which Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is suing under the Freedom of Information Act to seek records about DOGE’s operations. The Trump administration contends that DOGE, formally known as the U.S. DOGE Service, is exempt from FOIA because DOGE only provides advice to the president and federal agency officials and has no independent decision-making authority. However, in a series of rulings beginning in March, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper found there were strong indications that DOGE was actually directing cuts and layoffs at numerous federal agencies. That substantive operational role suggests DOGE’s activities fall under the Freedom of Information Act, the judge wrote. Cooper ordered DOGE and the Office of Management and Budget to begin turning over records responsive to CREW’s FOIA requests and also allowed the watchdog group to conduct fact-finding under a legal process known as discovery. Cooper’s discovery orders allow the group to obtain documents from DOGE and conduct a deposition in which Gleason would have to answer questions under oath. Cooper hasn’t yet ruled on any specific exemptions DOGE or OMB may claim to keep secret information contained in the records…”