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FOIA to DOJ requesting any records reflecting legal analysis supporting or relied on for Secretary Pompeo's determination that an emergency exists requiring the immediate sale of arms to Middle Eastern countries, including analysis regarding the legality of using such an emergency declaration or State Department's ability to use a declaration to waive congressional review requirements.

FOIA to DOJ requesting any legal analysis supporting or relied on for Secretary Pompeo's determination that an emergency exists requiring the immediate sale of arms to Middle Eastern countries, including analysis regarding the legality of using such an emergency declaration or State Department's ability to use a declaration to waive congressional review requirements.

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

American Oversight's lawsuit against Department of Justice seeking communications between Manuel Miranda and DOJ offices in order to shed light on a scandal associated with Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh.

The Justice Management Division of the Department of Justice stated that it had no records of legal analysis or recusals related to Attorney General Sessions' role in firing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. American Oversight asked for these records to understand whether and to what extent political considerations outweighed ethical and legal principles in the firing of a career, non-political federal employee.

FOIA to DOJ's Office on Violence Against Women determining the extent of conservative, anti-abortion, and anti-LGBT groups' influence on the U.S. delegation to the UN Committee on the Status of Women.

FOIA to DOJ seeking records reflecting communications between the agency and the White House Counsel staff regarding congressional oversight in light of the administration's unprecedented efforts to resist oversight.

FOIA to FBI seeking records reflecting communications between the agency and the White House Counsel staff regarding congressional oversight in light of the administration's unprecedented efforts to resist oversight.

American Oversight is investigating the extent to which federal agencies are following the lead of the president in defying legislative branch oversight.