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throughline No. 200 September 29, 2026

Supreme Court to decide if DOGE must release records under FOIA

The remedy names the gap. An office created to make other parts of government account for their spending is arguing, through the Solicitor General, that it is not the kind of body the public records law reaches. Whether that is legally right is a separate question from whether it is the same standard it applied to others.

The remedy names the gap. An office created to make other parts of government account for their spending is arguing, through the Solicitor General, that it is not the kind of body the public records law reaches. Whether that is legally right is a separate question from whether it is the same standard it applied to others.

On September 28, 2026 the Supreme Court considers, at its long conference, the U.S. DOGE Service's petition in No. 25-1103 asking it to halt jurisdictional discovery into whether DOGE is an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act — 19 months after the records requests that started the case went unanswered.

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