Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily blocked discovery into DOGE. You see, the lower court was probing whether DOGE qualifies as an agency under FOIA. The move came on an emergency appeal handled by Roberts, who could decide the fate or kick it to the full court. But he stopped it. Another win for the Department of Government Efficiency! #BREAKING: Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts has HALTED a lower court order, which subjected DOGE to FOIA requests and discovery from leftist groups FINALLY John Roberts is stepping up to the plate! MORE OF THIS! pic.twitter.com/wuPGyvXU42 — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 23, 2025 BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary administrative stay halting lower court orders that required the DOGE to comply with FOIA requests and related discovery. YUGE WIN! pic.twitter.com/FFTJFs4QnB — I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) May 23, 2025   The Hill reports: Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted discovery Friday in a lawsuit seeking access to documents and information about the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) operations. In a brief order, Roberts granted the government’s request for an administrative stay, which temporarily lifts a judge’s order allowing limited discovery into whether DOGE is an “agency.” If it is found to be an agency, that would make DOGE subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The request went to Roberts by default; he handles emergency appeals arising from the nation’s capital. The pause will last until the court decides whether to wipe two lower court rulings letting discovery move forward, which Roberts could himself decide or refer to the full court. Solicitor General D. John Sauer had argued in the government’s emergency application that DOGE is not an agency. Instead, it’s a “presidential advisory body” housed within the Executive Office of the President, he said. He suggested that U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, an appointee of former President Obama, ordered DOGE to submit to “sweeping, intrusive” discovery just to determine if it is, in fact, subject to FOIA, which lets the public request information from the government. Cooper’s order allowed discovery about DOGE employees and all “recommendations” it has made to various agencies, in addition to other internal documents. He also ordered a deposition of acting DOGE Administrator Amy Gleason. Many can’t believe this actually happened! IM SHOCKED!! Chief Justice Roberts temporarily halts orders requiring DOGE to comply with FOIA requests & related discovery. A HUGE win for @DOGE !! pic.twitter.com/LuzQyFdge2 — Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) May 23, 2025 RedState adds: So, here’s the background on this one: February 20 — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) (founded by Norm Eisen, for those wondering) filed suit against DOGE, Elon Musk, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Russ Vought (its director), the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and Marco Rubio (in his capacity as archivist), asserting all manner of nefarious, shadowy deeds against DOGE and seeking an injunction declaring DOGE an “agency” under U.S. Code provisions, such that it is subject to FOIA requests. March 10 — Judge Christopher Cooper, an Obama appointee, entered an order granting (in part) CREW’s motion for a preliminary injunction. April 15 — Judge Cooper entered an order granting expedited discovery in the case. April 18 — The Trump administration appealed Cooper’s April 15 ruling to the D.C. Circuit, seeking a writ of mandamus quashing his order based on the separation of powers and asserting that DOGE is an advisory body, not an agency subject to such requests. April 18 — The D.C. Circuit granted an administrative stay of Cooper’s order. May 14 — The D.C. Circuit dissolved the administrative stay and denied the administration’s petition for writ of mandamus. May 20 — Judge Cooper denied the administration’s motion for stay as moot and ordered discovery to proceed May 21 — The administration filed an application for stay in the Supreme Court. And that brings us to today, with the Chief Justice issuing the order placing an administrative stay on Cooper’s April 15 and May 20 orders.

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Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki started her attempted rebuttal to Thursday’s White House briefing segment following White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's answers to reporters' questions. Psaki began the segment by saying that she’s going to answer the reporters’ questions, “but with the actual truth,” which included allegations that a video of murdered South African farmers are a “White supremacist dog whistle” and falsely claiming that the Make America Healthy Again commission's report was “devoid” of “science and data and facts.”  Psaki then answered this question by reporter Yamiche Alcindor: ALCINDOR: The President showed a video that he said showed more than 1,000 burial sites of white South Africans and he said were murdered. We know that that was not true and that the video wasn’t true. And that’s why I wonder, why did the President choose to show that – LEAVITT: What’s not true Yamiche? ALCINDOR: It’s not true that the video was showing a burial site. It is unsubstantiated that that’s the case.     Psaki responded to the question in her own words: Well, first of all, Yamiche, you’re right, that was not true. I mean, according to local news reports, the video was a compilation of protests against the violence that all farmers face, regardless of skin color. But, Trump became, we think, obsessed with this false narrative of white genocide, after seeing a Fox News segment on it back in 2018. And then that obsession only grew once his best buddy and huge donor, Elon Musk, basically moved into the White House. Musk is also obsessed with this completely disproven and totally offensive claim. So, to go back to your question, I guess–I mean why did Trump show it? Because it’s a white supremacist dog whistle, and because his friend Elon Musk probably asked him to. Psaki also claimed that a video that President Trump played in the White House showing the call to kill white farmers from an opposition politician and depictions of crosses demonstrating the murder of 1,000 white farmers is a “white supremacist dog whistle.” The Associated Press has confirmed the 2020 demonstration, saying; “Each cross marks a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder’.” Psaki’s antics didn’t stop there, however. Next, she took a question about the MAHA commission’s report of children's health:   JILLIAN MICHAELS: As a MAHA mom yourself, how do you interpret the significance of this report in terms of delivering measurable health improvements for Americans and their kids, and what specific actions does the administration plan to take in response to it? PSAKI: Well, Jillian, that one was definitely made for Karoline and not me, but since you gave me the opportunity, that was a 72-page report put together by the MAGA—MAHA commission. Which includes such “distinguished health experts” as, wait for it, RFK Jr., Linda Mcmahon, and Stephen Miller. And while they do identify a real problem with children’s health, their proposed solutions are deeply devoid of things that matter like, say, science and data and facts. Meanwhile, they are defending and getting rid of the very programs that would actually help. She called to attention the credibility of chair members of the MAHA committee like Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, even though there are no reports that she actually wrote anything on the entire 72-page report. Psaki then goes on to make a comically false claim that the report was devoid of science, data, and facts. In fact, the report features 8 graphs and data sets as well as over 150 facts citing the decrease in children's health across America and what the commission is going to do to stop it.  DISCLOSURE: The Founder and President of the Media Research Center, L. Brent Bozell III was nominated by the Trump administration to be the ambassador to South Africa. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read. MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki May, 22nd, 2025 9:40:40 PM EST JEN PSAKI: Well, there was another White House briefing today, so I figured why not? It’s like riding a bike. I’m gonna go try to answer as many of the questions as I can, but with the actual truth.  (...) 9:42:42 PM EST PSAKI: Ok, next up, Yamiche Alcindor from NBC News. YAMICHE ALCINDOR: The President showed a video that he said showed more than 1,000 burial sites of white South Africans and he said were murdered. We know that that was not true and that the video wasn’t true. And that’s why I wonder, why did the President choose to show that – PRESS SECRETARY KAROLINE LEAVITT: What’s not true Yamiche? ALCINDOR: It’s not true that the video was showing a burial site. It is unsubstantiated that that’s the case. PSAKI: Well, first of all, Yamiche, you’re right, that was not true. I mean, according to local news reports, the video was a compilation of protests against the violence that all farmers face, regardless of skin color. But, Trump became, we think, obsessed with this false narrative of white genocide, after seeing a Fox News segment on it back in 2018. And then that obsession only grew once his best buddy and huge donor, Elon Musk, basically moved into the White House. Musk is also obsessed with this completely disproven and totally offensive claim. So, to go back to your question, I guess–I mean why did Trump show it? Because it’s a white supremacist dog whistle, and because his friend Elon Musk probably asked him to. (...) 9:44:21 PM EST PSAKI: Ok, I’m told the next question is from Jillian Michaels, of all people, from The Biggest Loser fame, Jillian. JILLIAN MICHAELS: As a MAHA mom yourself, how do you interpret the significance of this report in terms of delivering measurable health improvements for Americans and their kids, and what specific actions does the administration plan to take in response to it? PSAKI: Well, Jillian, that one was definitely made for Karoline and not me, but since you gave me the opportunity, that was a 72 page report put together by the MAGA—MAHA commission. Which includes such “distinguished health experts” as, wait for it, RFK Jr., Linda Mcmahon, and Stephen Miller. And while they do identify a real problem with children’s health, their proposed solutions are deeply devoid of things that matter like, say, science and data and facts. Meanwhile, they are defending and getting rid of the very programs that would actually help. (…)