Lawsuits
CREW sues DHS and NARA for failing to preserve text messages
CREW is suing DHS for failing to preserve text messaging data and NARA for its failure to initiate enforcement against these violations.
Lawsuits
Lawsuit challenges Trump administration’s illegal national citizenship database
The Trump-Vance administration’s creation of massive government databases consolidating legally protected personal information is unlawful.
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CREW sues the State Department for Musk/Modi meeting records
The Department of State has not responded to CREW’s request for records pertaining to Elon Musk’s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 13, 2025, according to a lawsuit filed by CREW.
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CREW sues multiple departments for records on DOGE
Communications between DOGE and the VA, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Education and CFPB should be public.
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CREW sues DOJ for OLC records on 22nd Amendment
Any legal opinions from the DOJ about whether any president can extend his term beyond the understood constitutional limits should be public.
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CREW sues Trump administration for hiding federal spending information from the public
OMB took offline information that shows how OMB directs agencies to spend taxpayer money—information that OMB is required by law to post.
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CREW sues to challenge destruction of CDC FOIA office
The closure of the CDC's entire FOIA office violates both FOIA and the Administrative Procedure Act and the CDC must be compelled to follow the law.
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CREW sues US DOGE Service to compel transparency
A cadre of largely unidentified actors in DOGE are controlling major government functions with no oversight or meaningful transparency into its operations. CREW filed a lawsuit to require compliance with key records laws.
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CREW, Democracy Forward sue to block Trump’s illegal plan to fire government workers
President Trump’s executive order paving the way to convert merit-based civil servants to at-will employees, enabling political appointees to fire and replace them with loyalists, is unlawful and exceeds the president’s authority.
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DOGE sued to follow the law or cease operations
DOGE is operating in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act and must comply with transparency, ethics and other requirements or cease operations, according to a lawsuit brought by CREW and partners.
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CREW sues for records on Project 2025 and federal worker protections
DOJ, FBI and NSA have improperly failed to produce records related to civil service protections for federal workers.
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CREW sues to challenge the FEC’s dismissal of dark money scheme complaint
The FEC should have investigated a scheme to launder $5 million in dark money to influence the 2020 Senate elections in Georgia.