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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! Pam Bondi’s Secret DOJ Email Address Revealed The former AG used an email alias during her tenure. It’s a long-standing DOJ practice that can interfere with the public’s ability to access records through the #FOIA www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Pam Bondi’s Secret DOJ Email Address Revealed

The former attorney general used an email alias during her tenure. It’s a long-standing DOJ practice that can interfere with the public’s ability to access records through the FOIA.

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On Tuesday, the government launched america.gov. After journalists started pointing out that the AI bot's (correct) answers contradicted President Trump's position, the AI started to refuse to answer those same questions. (see, e.g., apnews.com/article/trum...) 🤷

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Trump touts America.gov, but its government-sourced AI answers undercut many of his statements

The Trump administration has launched a revamped website, America.gov, to simplify access to government information.

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In my piece, I argued that aggressively deploying AI could give "the White House near-complete control in FOIA responses from the get-go. If a FOIA bot is deployed to make the first cut on redactions, it could be given instructions like: redact anything that contradicts the president’s statements."

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Very grateful to @knightcolumbia.org for prompting and hosting this series, read all of the papers on the future of government transparency here: knightcolumbia.org/research/rec...

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Reconstructing Free Expression

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've attempted to sketch a framework for evaluating the government's use of AI to process FOIA requests. There is potential in this technology to make things better, and also a lot to be scared of. We need to take the risks seriously, and now. Read more here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/pacing-...

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Pacing FOIA’s Frontier

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A new series of short essays about government transparency, published as part of @knightcolumbia.org's ongoing project on "Reconstructing Free Expression." knightcolumbia.org/research/rec...

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Reconstructing Free Expression

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Breaking: Director of White House Press Operations has just filed a declaration saying the WH is complying with TRO, restoring press access

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING on MS NOW: MS NOW journalists have begun regaining access to the White House.

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

UPDATE: it appears journalists for these orgs are being let back into the White House

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just in: Judge Kelly has ordered the government to respond to CNN, Politico, MS Now's notice of noncompliance by 12:30 today:

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Breaking: Judge Kelly has ordered the government to respond to CNN, Politico, MS Now's notice of noncompliance by 12:30 today:

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Breaking: CNN, MS Now, Politico have moved for an emergency hearing before Judge Kelly, noting reporters for their orgs were turned away from WH this morning

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Update: Journalists for three news organizations still barred from White House grounds despite judge's temporary restraining order against the Trump administration. www.washingtonpost.com/busine...

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CNN, Politico, MS NOW journalists barred from White House after judge blocks Trump’s ban

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the White House to temporarily restore the journalists' credentials and said the ban was probably unconstitutional.

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Chris Young @youngchris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NEW: @rcfp.org, joined by 50 media outlets and industry groups, is urging a federal court to immediately restore White House access to CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, arguing that the Trump administration’s decision to ban them violates the First Amendment. www.rcfp.org/white-house-...

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Media coalition: White House press ban targeting CNN, MS NOW, Politico is ‘illegal and unconstitutional’

Reporters Committee rallied a coalition of 50 media outlets and industry groups in urging a federal court to restore White House access to the news outlets.

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NYTimes Communications @nytimespr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This White House press ban is illegal and unconstitutional. It violates the First Amendment. We're standing together with @rcfp.org, the WHCA, and more than 50 media outlets to urge the federal courts to immediately restore access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. www.rcfp.org/white-house-...

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Media coalition: White House press ban targeting CNN, MS NOW, Politico is ‘illegal and unconstitutional’

Reporters Committee rallied a coalition of 50 media outlets and industry groups in urging a federal court to restore White House access to the news outlets.

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My @rcfp.org colleague @gaberottman.bsky.social is on @npr.org right now discussing the TRO requiring the WH to restore access to CNN, Politico, MS Now, and the reports this morning that some reporters with those outlets were turned away notwithstanding the order

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"How to piss off a judge you appointed (and who issued a relatively modest ruling) in three easy steps."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.

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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access

The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Scoop: The anonymous source behind a POLITICO story that the White House is now using to justify a ban on the outlet was none other than JD Vance himself. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...

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The Source Behind The Ban

The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.

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Politico @politico.com · 23/09/2026

BREAKING: A federal judge appeared skeptical of the Trump administration’s move banning POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW from the White House, and said he will rule on the matter soon.

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Judge appears skeptical of Trump’s effort to ban news outlets from White House

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, said he would rule soon.

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Government Accountability Project @govacctproj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📣 Our whistleblower Tim Turner is disclosing how govt. agencies are illegally withholding or redacting documents individuals need to prove they are legally allowed to reside in the U.S., as reported by The Latin Times: whistleblower.org/in-the-news/...

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The Latin Times: The U.S. Is Redacting the Papers That Prove You’re Here Legally—Here's What a Leaked Email Shows

“A former senior USCIS records official, later identified as Timothy Turner, told Congress the agency ordered staff in May 2025 to withhold tax returns, court transcripts, joint bank records, marriage...

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026

🇺🇸 Leading US broadcasters have suspended TV "pool" coverage of President Donald Trump on Monday in solidarity with CNN which has been banned from the White House.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING on MS NOW: It's official. MS NOW, CNN, and Politico have filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin after Trump banned the outlets from covering the White House.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Here's the 27-page complaint just filed by CNN, MS NOW, and Politico challenging President Trump's categorical exclusion of those three outlets from the White House: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... As I explained this morning, this suit will succeed: www.stevevladeck.com/p/251-newsga...

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#1 in CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC. v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-03287) – CourtListener.com

COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF against Steven Cheung, DONALD J. TRUMP, SUSAN WILES ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number ADCDC-12686613) filed by Betsy Klein, POLITICO LLC, MS NOW Cable, ...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Joint statement from the White House television pool members: (via @cnn.com)

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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NPR @npr.org · 21/09/2026

NPR and our Member stations will continue to uphold First Amendment rights, and to stand with any news organization targeted for its reporting.

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Statement on White House bans from Tommy Evans, NPR's Editor in Chief

NPR and our Member stations will continue to uphold First Amendment rights, and to stand with any news organization targeted for its reporting.

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CNN @cnn.com · 21/09/2026

CNN, MS NOW and Politico to sue Trump administration after the president banned them from the White House. cnn.it/4cXFIma

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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org · 18/09/2026

On Friday, President Trump said he is planning to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House for reporting what he called “fake news.” “A ban like this would be flatly unconstitutional,” said @rcfp.org President Bruce D. Brown. Our full statement: www.rcfp.org/statement-wh...

A quote from RCFP President Bruce D. Brown: “A ban like this would be flatly unconstitutional. The First Amendment is clear that once the White House invites in some journalists, it can't ban others because it doesn't like their reporting. This is textbook viewpoint discrimination and will be quickly struck down by the courts if challenged.”

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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: Records obtained through a FOIA lawsuit shows that despite record number of pregnant women are in detention, ICE has lost count of the number of miscarriages. A Deleted Data/Immigration/Guardian investigations collab

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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women

ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hello lawyers! @rcfp.org is hiring a senior staff attorney (or staff attorney) to join our National Litigation team and devise/execute impact litigation and defend the rights of a free press. Apply by Sept 25! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ReportersCom...

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Staff Attorney/Senior Staff Attorney – National Litigation

Company Description: Established in 1970, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (Reporters Committee) provides pro bono legal representation, amicus curiae support, and other lega...

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Very proud of the team at @rcfp.org that pried these FBI records on Roy Cohn loose for Kai Bird & Susan Goldmark's new book "American Scoundrel," out today! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/b...

“American Scoundrel” is an elegant retelling of the lurid Cohn story, but it’s also something more. Bird makes ample use of F.B.I. materials that he obtained only after the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed a lawsuit on his behalf. Cohn was three times indicted on charges of bribery, perjury and extortion, and in each instance was acquitted. Six weeks before his death, he was disbarred. The F.B.I. files help Bird catch Cohn in numerous lies. In sworn testimony from 1974 (acquired by the R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, an unexpected collector of Cohn memorabilia), Cohn — who was “audacious about his tax insolence” — claimed he had lost millions of dollars in the stock market. An F.B.I. memo shows that was not true.

“That was not true” turns out to be an underlying theme in the book. Cohn lied when it suited him — which was often, given that lying turned out to be an effective way to bend others to his preferred reality. All that mattered was winning.

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Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com · 27/08/2026

Thank you to our lawyers at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press for representing me and AP to fight to bring these records to light #foia www.rcfp.org/rfk-samoa-gu...

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RFK Jr. lied to Congress about 2019 trip to Samoa, according to documents obtained by The Guardian, AP

The records were released in response to a lawsuit Reporters Committee attorneys filed on behalf of the AP.

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We say "Thanks Dolly!" with our toddler every single day when we get to the end of one of the books that she sent him. Thanks, Dolly.

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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org · 10/08/2026

ICYMI: @rcfp.org's Gunita Singh breaks down her top five FOIA tips for journalists in our latest video. Watch 👇

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 25/07/2026

JUST POSTED: A deep investigation by The NYT of shortcuts taken to get President Trump his Qatari-donated plane in time for POTUS to show it off during 250th anniversary events-compromises that leave the plane more vulnerable to potential threats (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...

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Inside the Rushed Effort to Get Trump His New Air Force One

A New York Times investigation found that President Trump’s push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Statement from David McCraw, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at the New York Times:

"Today's proceeding was an important affirmation of our country's commitment to a free press. We are pleased that the government finally conceded that the subpoenas violated the law, but they should never have been issued in the first place. The Times and our journalists will continue to report and seek the truth without fear or favor. We will not be deterred in the face of tactics like these."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

NEW: Judge Subramanian's order puts—in an order—that the subpoenas are withdrawn, that DOJ will come to him if they want to try again, and that Subramanian will retain jurisdiction over "any related matters in this investigation." It also sets more briefing on the non-disclosure issue.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
In re Grand Jury Subpoenas Dated July 10,
2026,
The New York Times Company et al.,
Movants.
26-mc-352 (AS)
ORDER
ARUN SUBRAMANIAN, United States District Judge:
The Court hereby ORDERS as follows:
1. As stated on the record during the July 23, 2026, hearing, the Government has
voluntarily withdrawn the challenged subpoenas, including the subpoenas issued to the
journalists as well as the third-party subpoenas. Those subpoenas are null and void. As
a result, the motions to quash are moot. The Clerk of Court is respectfully directed to
terminate the motions at Dkts. 22 and 27.
2. As stated by the Government at the hearing, to the extent that a decision is made to
renew the subpoenas, the Government will come to the Court in advance of issuance.
3. By consent of the parties, the Court will retain jurisdiction over any related matters in
this investigation. Movants may submit a letter by Monday, July 27, 2026 concerning
any broaderscope of that retention of jurisdiction, responding to the position articulated
by the Government at the hearing. The Government may file any response by
Wednesday, July 29, 2026.
4. With respect to the July 14, 2026 application for a non-disclosure order, the
Government should, on or before Monday, July 27, 2026, furnish to the Court on an
ex parte basis any internal communications on or before July 16, 2026, concerning (1)
the decision to seek the non-disclosure order, (2) whether the application should or
should not reference that the owners of the records were reporters, and (3) whether and
when notification of the third-party subpoenas should be given to the reporters.
SO ORDERED.
Dated: July 23, 2026
New York, New York

ARUN SUBRAMANIAN
United States District Judge

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