The lawsuit targets communications between the Justice Department and outside groups like the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society.

American Oversight's lawsuit against the Justice Department Justice to shed light on the influence that outside groups and individuals, including the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo and the Heritage Foundation’s John Malcom, may have exercised over the Trump administration’s judicial nominations.

FOIA to DOJ seeking communications between the Office of Legal Policy and Leonard Leo, John Malcolm, Senator Mitch McConnell, Senator Michael Lee, or any of the nine current Justices serving on the Supreme Court to shed light on outside influences on Supreme Court nominations.