The Supreme Court Narrowed the DOGE Records Case Once. Now It Will Decide Whether DOGE Has to Answer to the Public Records Law at All.
In the first months of 2025, the Department of Government Efficiency announced the termination of contracts worth billions of dollars and obtained access to sensitive federal data and payment systems, according to the court record. A watchdog group asked a simple question: under the law, is DOGE an agency whose records the public can request? On October 13, 2026, the Supreme Court agreed to decide that question. It will be the Court’s second intervention in a case that began as an ordinary Freedom of Information Act request. ...