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NOTUS

A government watchdog group sued ICE, Customs and Border Protection and DHS. American Oversight is seeking access to autopsy reports and other inte…

ICE Sued for Autopsies as Custody Death Count Mounts

Newsweek

American Oversight, a nonprofit organization focused on government transparency, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Distri…

Noem faces new legal trouble over jet use

Salon

American Oversight, the watchdog group that filed the complaint, also requested that the Office of Special Counsel, which handles Hatch Act complai…

Another Chance for Trump to Cash Out

The Atlantic

Thanks to the 1978 Presidential Records Act, every president from Ronald Reagan onward has been required by law to preserve and protect their recor…

Will Donald Trump Be Allowed to Destroy His Records?

The New Yorker

A law passed after Watergate makes Presidential records government property. The Trump Administration has declared it unconstitutional.

Trump complains that groups trying to make Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago report public ‘cast aspersions against’ judges who didn’t ‘deliver’

Law & Crime

On the same day that the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals again resoundingly rejected Donald Trump’s defunct RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton…

ICE puts new restrictions on members of Congress inspecting detention centers

Los Angeles Times

A new Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy requires members of Congress to seek advance approval in order to speak with detainees during over…

While ICE cracked down on L.A. protests, Marines were told to use force as ‘last resort’

LA Times

Before being deployed to Los Angeles during anti-ICE protests last summer, U.S. Marines were given 12 rules for engaging with protesters, and Rule …

Trump vs. the public’s right to know

Axios

The Presidential Records Act and FOIA exist to preserve presidential documents as public property and to ensure access to government records, respe…

An unreported ICE killing of an American shattered 2 Texas families

Texas Tribune

In late February, a friend texted Josh a news story declaring that ICE was responsible for Ruben’s death. The information was not revealed by the g…

La filtración de datos privados para usar en la campaña antiinmigración de Trump hace saltar las alarmas

El País US

FBI Raids Home of Scientist for Alleged Records Violation — as Trump Weakens Record Policies for Himself

Truthout

“Weakening these protections will make it harder for communities to elect leaders who will fight for strong schools, accessible health care, and re…

Taxing Dissent? Lawsuit Demands To Know If The IRS Is Secretly Policing ‘Antifa’ – Tampa Free Press

Tampa Free Press

On Wednesday, the non-partisan group Protect Democracy, represented by American Oversight, filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and…

The fate of America’s presidential records is now in the courts’ hands

The Hill

In response to the opinion, American Oversight, a public interest group, and the American Historical Association filed suit in the United States Di…

White House loosens rules for preserving presidential records

The Washington Post

After the Justice Department said a post-Watergate records law is unconstitutional, White House lawyers established a new policy that experts say w…

Palantir is reportedly helping the IRS investigate financial crimes

TechCrunch

The IRS has paid the firm $130 million since 2018 to use its data analysis software to pore over financial records for investigative purposes, the …

White House Allowed Officials’ Text Messages to Be Deleted, Lawsuit Says

The New York Times

Two watchdogs say internal White House guidance that text messages need not be preserved unless “they are the sole record of official decision-maki…

‘Serious privacy concerns’: Trump admin violating FOIA by refusing to release documents in wake of data-sharing directives, watchdog says

Law&Crime

The Trump administration is violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by refusing to release records on how federal agencies share and use se…

Historians sue DOJ as Trump shrugs off law meant to preserve White House papers

NPR

The Trump administration asserts a nearly 50-year-old law requiring the preservation of federal government records is unconstitutional. Historians …

‘No peace’: Nearly a year after her son’s death, she learned that ICE was responsible

NPR

That only came to light following a public records request by American Oversight, a watchdog group, that sought documents related to ICE’s use of f…

Exclusive: Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap discussed election records, litigation with feds

Votebeat

The emails, obtained by watchdog group American Oversight and shared exclusively with Votebeat, show Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap signaling…

The Justice Department’s position on presidential papers is astounding

Washington Post

Last week, two organizations — the American Historical Association and American Oversight, a government watchdog group — filed a lawsuit in Washing…

Watchdog: Election board members may have broken law with legal filing

Atlanta Journal Constitution

A government watchdog group is claiming that three Republican members of the State Election Board may have violated Georgia sunshine laws by submit…

Historians suing Trump administration say National Archives won’t commit to preserving presidential records during lawsuit

CNN

In filings Tuesday, the historians — who are being joined in the case by the left-leaning government transparency group American Oversight — said t…