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Secret law now governs the executive's most consequential operations.
From an unpublished OLC memo treated as the Pentagon's 'effective law' for lethal boat strikes to DOGE's claim that its restructuring records sit beyond FOIA entirely, the legal instruments behind the state's biggest exercises of power are kept from public view.
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US Politics
SDNY Orders the Boat-Strikes OLC Memo Turned Over for Review: DOD 'Treated the Memo as Its Effective Law' The first judicial crack in the strikes' secrecy applies FOIA's secret-law doctrine to the unpublished memo authorizing lethal force.
US Politics
SCOTUS Takes Up CREW's DOGE Records Fight — Second Intervention on Whether DOGE Must Answer to FOIA The legal instruments behind the executive branch's most consequential restructuring are being moved permanently beyond public view.