The March 18 request by the Justice Department is part of a long-running legal fight with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which is seeking to uncover information about DOGE’s efforts last year to drastically cut federal spending and fire thousands of government workers.
The justices intervened in the same case last year in favor of the administration, halting CREW’s fact-finding push. But the case was sent back to a federal appeals court, which allowed CREW’s requests for documents and testimony to proceed after the liberal-leaning organization narrowed some of its lines of inquiry.
CREW pulled back its requests for information about the DOGE office’s “recommendations” but continued to press for details about its structure, functions and decisions that it “directed” as opposed to “recommended.” A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit refused to disturb CREW’s revised request in July, and the full appeals court declined to revisit that decision in mid-December.
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to consider the merits of the case and so far hasn’t asked the justices to immediately intervene on an emergency basis.
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