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Miles Archer

(19,441 posts)
Wed May 21, 2025, 04:50 PM May 21

Wait a sec. Musk says DOGE SHIT "made excellent progress," but Trump wants the SCOTUS to seal their records?

I posted the "pride" comments earlier: https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-insults-interviewer-for-daring-to-ask-about-his-big-doge-promise/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/21/supreme-court-doge-foia-appeal-00362263

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to keep DOGE records secret
The appeal to the high court comes in a FOIA lawsuit filed by a watchdog group.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to block an effort to open the inner workings of the secretive DOGE cost-cutting effort to public scrutiny.

The Justice Department filed an emergency appeal Wednesday urging the high court to put a hold on a judge’s orders giving a watchdog group access to documents detailing firings, grant terminations and other actions proposed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which was overseen by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

Solicitor General John Sauer is also asking the Supreme Court to block a deposition of the obscure official the Trump administration has identified as the leader of the budget-cutting drive: DOGE administrator Amy Gleason.

The appeal is the latest in more than a dozen expedited requests the administration has brought to the Supreme Court in the first four months of President Donald Trump’s second term. The myriad requests have sought the justices’ quick intervention to block preliminary lower-court rulings on everything from Trump’s immigration agenda to his layoff plans for federal workers. One other emergency appeal pending before the justices also relates to DOGE: a bid by the administration to give DOGE access to sensitive Social Security data.

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Wait a sec. Musk says DOGE SHIT "made excellent progress," but Trump wants the SCOTUS to seal their records? (Original Post) Miles Archer May 21 OP
It's right there in it's very name C_U_L8R May 21 #1
Two emergency appeals at SCOTUS to keep an eye on. yellow dahlia May 21 #2
SCOTUS is notoriously unreliable and noncommittal in the area of schedules. Miles Archer May 21 #3

C_U_L8R

(47,381 posts)
1. It's right there in it's very name
Wed May 21, 2025, 05:20 PM
May 21

DEPARTMENT.

Now make yourself transparent and accountable, as the law requires.

yellow dahlia

(2,453 posts)
2. Two emergency appeals at SCOTUS to keep an eye on.
Wed May 21, 2025, 05:34 PM
May 21

Do we have a sense of when a decision will drop?

Miles Archer

(19,441 posts)
3. SCOTUS is notoriously unreliable and noncommittal in the area of schedules.
Wed May 21, 2025, 05:45 PM
May 21

It will happen on a day when Trump posts an AI video of himself as Elvis or something and no one will notice, as intended.

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