Zoe Tillman

In a court fight over whether DOGE has to comply with public demands for its records under FOIA, DOJ says it's going to immediately appeal an order requiring the US DOGE Service to answer Qs about its structure/operations and make administrator Amy Gleason avail to be deposed https://t.co/D5Teltt5Pi

ICYMI: A federal judge in DC denied the Trump admin's effort to get a lawsuit tossed out challenging DOGE's access to systems and data at Labor, HHS and CFPB -- "and prepares itself for the twists and turns this case will surely continue to bring" https://t.co/cOhSobrBrV https://t.co/evU5eIIxDY

"What the record shows is that nothing has been done. Nothing." On what a judge said and ordered yesterday, and other recent developments in the legal fight over the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador https://t.co/L227y7SrYU

Latest on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case: El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said the Maryland man would not be returned, even as the Supreme Court has called for the US to facilitate his release. From David Voreacos and Catherine Lucey: https://t.co/P26Z7dadE1

A judge's injunction took effect today restoring the AP's access to the White House + other restricted areas open to other press after the DC Circuit didn't act on the Trump admin's request to pause it. DOJ filed a letter this morning saying they may ask SCOTUS to intervene

SCOTUS said yesterday the Trump admin must take steps to bring back a Md. man who immigration officials conceded was wrongly deported to El Salvador: https://t.co/uTXkB6i4N1 Judge said the govt had "take all available steps" ASAP, asked for an update by 9:30am today. At 9:16am, https://t.co/p5Ny5N8tIf

A federal judge denied Trump’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit over comments he made at a presidential debate last year about the “Central Park Five” -- this is one of the few remaining active legal fights that followed him back to the White House https://t.co/MMF5cGI4Be

Last night a DC fed judge denied a request to speed up FOIA productions of docs related to agency mass firings, but called the Trump admin's rhetoric "a slap in the face to hardworking federal employees across our country, many of whom have spent their entire careers serving the https://t.co/jjNpiU5VOU

Up to SCOTUS: Trump asked the justices to let him fire top officials at two independent agencies, filing an emergency request (after losing in the DC Circuit earlier this week) that could bolster White House control over federal regulators. From Greg Stohr:

DOJ is appealing yesterday's order that blocked the White House from restricting the AP's ability to cover Trump at the White House and when he's traveling based on its editorial choices re: "Gulf of Mexico" v. "Gulf of America." Prev: https://t.co/5ht707bjne https://t.co/HW7EcUa6Bt

A federal appeals court freed the Trump administration to fire thousands of federal employees at 20 US agencies, lifting a lower court order that blocked the mass terminations. In a 2-1 order, 4th Circuit judges disagreed about how to apply a SCOTUS order earlier this week in a

A DC federal judge ruled today that the White House can't exclude the AP from areas/events otherwise open to the White House press pool and credentialed reporters based on its editorial choices re: "Gulf of Mexico" v. "Gulf of America." Injunction is paused for one week

Disclosed on the docket: The IRS will give taxpayer data about immigrants to US authorities conducting criminal investigations, saying it will support President Donald Trump’s pledge to deport people illegally in the US, per overnight court filing. From David Voreacos:

Trump is facing a new challenge to his use of a wartime law to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, less than a day after SCOTUS sided with the administration in an earlier fight; a NY federal judge set a hearing for tomorrow https://t.co/Lj8lZ6IP3H

SCOTUS bolstered President Donald Trump’s campaign to fire tens of thousands of federal workers, blocking a judge’s order that required the administration to reinstate employees in six government departments. From Greg Stohr: https://t.co/LZUPsuKHG1