A judge yesterday chided the Federal Communications Commission for its “vague and uninformative” response to a DOGE-related lawsuit and ordered the commission to produce documents sought under the Freedom of Information Act (FoIA).
The FCC was sued by journalist Nina Burleigh and Frequency Forward, a group that says it is investigating how Elon Musk’s influence in government “is creating unmanageable conflicts of interest within the FCC.” Burleigh and Frequency Forward alleged in an April 24 complaint that the FCC violated the Freedom of Information Act by wrongfully withholding records on DOGE’s activities within the agency.
The plaintiffs filed a motion for preliminary injunction this week and received a quick ruling from US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in the District of Columbia. Jackson denied the preliminary injunction request but ordered the FCC to “make ongoing productions of responsive documents on September 15, 2025 and October 6, 2025,” and to “file a status report proposing a schedule for the completion of its production of documents to plaintiff by October 13, 2025.”
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