The irony of protests against police brutality being met with violent escalation by law enforcement is perhaps matched only by the authoritarianism of the president and attorney general. 

Opinion and order issued by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruling that the DOJ has conducted inadequate searches for records requested by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. 

Supreme Court decisions, limits on FOIA, and Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's D.C. landlord.

Trump and his administration are refusing to even negotiate in good faith with congressional investigators.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) have sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) to compel the release of records detailing the department's role in the decision to reinstate a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 U.S. Census. The lawsuit filed Friday by LDF, along with non-partisan ethics watchdog American Oversight, asks the court to order DOJ to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by LDF seeking a range of documents about the citizenship question.

Lawsuit filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund against the Department of Justice, seeking the release of records related to the inclusion of the a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 Census. American Oversight is serving as co-counsel in this litigation.