The rules of judgment must be accelerated

The American provincial court judge spent Christopher R. Cooper said that the Ministry of Governmental efficiency is subject to requests for the Freedom of Information Law. Cooper’s tall rule, kat, and funny. It comes to the final conclusion that “the digital service of the United States) is likely to be covered by FOIA and that the public will be affected by an irreplaceable way due to an unlimited delay in discovering the records.”

The court filed the ruling on March 10, and Watch the published court On March 14. The ruling is part of a continuous battle between the citizens of the Washington Conservation and Ethics Group (crew), Doug, and the Office of Management and Budget.

The crew is not profitable trying to hold American democracy accountable.Using bold legal procedures and in -depth investigations“In December and January, three requests for the Freedom of Information Law were sent to OMB asking about her contact with DOGE and searching for basic information about the new government agency whose official name of the US Digital Service (USDS).

Requests for the Freedom of Information Law can take years to get out of a government agency, but requests can demand their treatment quickly when there is a strong public interest. “OMB accepted the staff requests and agreed to address them on an urgent basis given the general importance of the required records. The court stated that USDs, on the other hand, refuse to address the staff on the basis that USDs are not” agency “subject to the Information Freedom Court.

Cooper called nonsense in this and the ruling that Dog is, in fact, “agency”. The crew originally wanted the requests for the Freedom of Information Law of March 10 so that Congress could obtain information before it was killed in the budget. Cooper denied the crew’s request to the agencies to meet this schedule, but he agreed that the requests needed to accelerate.

“The finding that USDS may be covered by FOIA, and that the public will be affected by an irreplaceable way by an unspecified delay in the discovery of the record crew, and the USDS will request to address the staff request in an urgent timeline, and after receiving proposals in the production schedule, to start producing documents as quickly as possible.”

Cooper also asked both parents to “keep all records that may respond to requests for freedom of information on the crew.” He does not trust exactly the people working in Dog to follow up on the law in this regard. “This evidence raises the possibility of the representatives of the defendants not fully estimated their obligations to maintain federal records,” he said. “This is especially true for USDs, which has been reported recently to the federal government, and given, it may not be mired in the policies of keeping it.”

The largest part of the ruler walks by claiming that Duji is not a technically “agency”, and therefore is not subject to requests for the Freedom of Information Law. The legislation of the Agency Freedom Law defines the agency as “including any executive ministry, a military ministry, a government institution, a government -controlled institution or another institution in the government’s executive branch (including the President’s Executive Office).”

If Dog’s only responsibility is to advise the president and help, he cannot be hit with a request for records. However, if Dog has played a large authority independent of Trump, FOIA will consider it an agency. Cooper said the crew is likely to prove that Dog was “agency” and referred to three stark evidence.

The court documents said: “First, it seems that relevant executive orders are granted the United States with great power independent of the president.” Second, (Elon) Musk and general data of the president notes that USDs are actually a great independent authority, “she said.

Then Cooper began to quote from social media posts in Musk and Trump. When Trump Declare Doug immediately after the elections in a publication on X, he said he would have the ability to “dismantle government bureaucracy, reduce excess regulations, reduce wasted expenditures, and restructure federal agencies.”

“Musk also received the credit for the US Agency for International Development, and it is proud:” We spent the weekend in feeding the United States Agency for International Development in the wood cat, ” The court indicated. “These statements and reports indicate that the USDS and leadership views that the administration is the one that makes the authority to make decisions to make discounts across the federal government.”

The brave also went to the third point of the court. EO gave Dog’s authority, Mossk and Trump’s pride in power, and Dog showed that authority through concrete measures by tearing the United States Agency for International Development and putting thousands of government employees on administrative leave. She said: “The court does not need to conclude that USDS has led the charge to close the US Agency for International Development, and that conducting such a mass extinguishing requires that it clearly requires great authority.”

Cooper’s case of the case makes it look as if Doge has been re -calculated during the procedures. When he was asked to defend himself before the court, Doug refused and said that the arguments of the crew were failing for “multiple independent reasons”, but it does not seem to express what it was. The court said: “Usds cannot escape the consequences of refusing its chance to refute any of the crew allegations indicating that USDs act with great independent power,” the court said.

“For all these reasons, the court concludes that USDs are more likely to be qualified as an agency for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Law,” Cooper finally spent. He said that obtaining documents to Congress before the budget battle will not matter in one way or another, but he admitted that obtaining records quickly is important.

“The rapid pace of USDs requires … a quick release of information about its structure and activities. This is in particular given the secrecy that USDS has worked.”