A federal appeals court has overturned a lower-court decision that allowed the DOJ to withhold emails related to former Trump’s 2017 travel ban that largely targeted Muslim-majority nations
A federal appeals court has overturned a lower-court decision that allowed the Department of Justice to withhold emails related to former President Donald Trump’s 2017 travel ban that largely targeted Muslim-majority nations.
Such drafts are often reflexively withheld by federal agencies, but the three-judge appeals court panel’s decision Friday said that agencies can’t withhold drafts solely because they’re drafts and that officials seeking to keep such records secret need to put forward an explanation of how disclosure would upset an agency’s internal deliberations.brought by Judicial Watch, a conservative group that often files Freedom of Information Act requests.
in court. Judicial Watch sought emails from Yates’ DOJ account leading up to the ban announcement, several of which the department declined to release. The department argued that the email attachments in Yates’ inbox “reflect successive version[s] of working drafts, and as such, show the internal development of the Department’s final decisions.”
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