Judge: Dodge is not just a consultant
The Dodge then asked the district court to make a summary decision in favor of it, and the staff responded by entering a movement for speedy discovery, “Finding information about whether the US president independently accepts sufficient authority and is therefore subject to the FOIA.” In April 15 OrderCooper ruled that the staff deserved a limited inquiry into the question whether the authority was giving authority to the authority to bring in the realm of Dage Foya. Cooper has not yet decided on a summary decision movement.
“USD structure and its authority’s scope is important to determine whether the agency ‘is running[ing] Freedom of authority from the president, “” The judge wrote. ” And the answers to these questions are not clear from the record. “
Cooper wrote that Trump’s executive orders “appear to suggest staff’s argument, saying that” the USDS is using a lot of independent authority. “” As the court has already noted, the executive order setting the USDS to enforce the president’s Dodge agenda has given the United States the authority to carry out this agenda, ‘not only to advise the president to do so. “
Not satisfied with the results, the Trump administration tried to abolish Cooper’s decision in the US court appeals for the Columbia Circuit district. Appeal court Ruled against the Dodge Last week, the appeal court temporarily stopped the order of the District Court in April, but dissolved the stay on May 14 and refused the government’s request.
The appellate court said, “The government claims that the district court order has allowed the president’s constitutional prejudice to be tightly discovered.” But “The discovery here is minor in the scope and does not personally target the president or a close adviser.