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American Oversight Investigating CDC’s Apparent Manipulation of Measles Death Data At Kennedy’s Command

We’re seeking CDC and HHS records on the decision to alter data on Pennsylvania measles deaths, including one involving a newborn.

September 3, 2026

Bombshell: DHS Memo Lays Out Dubious Legal Roadmap for Sidestepping Posse Comitatus Act to Deploy National Guard

Records we obtained raise alarm as consequential midterm election approaches.

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August 28, 2026

Lawmakers, National Security Veterans, and Former U.S. Archivists Urge Appeals Court to Uphold Block on Trump’s Evasion of Presidential Records Act

Three amicus briefs in a case brought by watchdogs and historians reject the Trump administration’s claim that a nearly 50-year-old recordkeeping l…

document preservation requirements

August 28, 2026

In the News

DOJ Memo: Trump Need Not Comply With Presidential Records Act

Bloomberg

American Oversight, a government watchdog organization, and the American Historical Association filed a lawsuit this week seeking to block the lega…

DOJ Says Laws Congress Passed to Prevent Another Nixon Don’t Apply to Trump

Slate

The American Historical Association, in partnership with American Oversight, announced they were suing to stop the OLC opinion from going into effe…

DOJ Wants to End Key Watergate-Era Rule to Help Trump

The New Republic

Days after the memorandum was released, the nonpartisan watchdog organization American Oversight joined with the American Historical Association to…

Historians sue Trump seeking to preserve presidential records law

USA Today

The American Historical Association, which says it has more than 10,000 members, and the watchdog American Oversight say in the filing that the cas…

Historians, watchdog group sue Trump to preserve White House records

Reuters

The American Historical Association and American Oversight on Monday asked the federal court in Washington to declare the nearly 50-year-old Presid…

Historians sue DOJ over opinion dismissing Presidential Records Act

NBC News

The American Historical Association suit, filed in federal court in D.C. in conjunction with the watchdog group American Oversight, says the Trump …

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