Supreme Court agrees to hear watchdog lawsuit seeking records on Elon Musk's DOGE

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a Freedom of Information Act dispute over whether the Department of Government Efficiency functioned as a federal agency or merely as a presidential advisory body. CREW seeks records about DOGE's role in reshaping federal operations; the administration argues that compelled disclosure and deposition would intrude on presidential advisers' autonomy and confidentiality.

A district judge and appeals panel sided with CREW on expedited processing and discovery, but the Supreme Court previously said an earlier lower-court production order was too broad. The case therefore presents a real institutional boundary: transparency for a body exercising alleged operational power versus separation-of-powers protections for presidential advice.