The Trump administration is scrambling to keep the internal operations of DOGE under wraps, asking the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to step in and block a probe that was approved last week. The post ‘This Court has rejected similar fishing expeditions’: Trump DOJ sprints to SCOTUS to keep DOGE’s ‘most sensitive workings’ in the shadows first appeared on Law & Crime.

But two Trump-appointed judges indicated they may consider this a contract claim that would have to be heard by a different court.

The executive order covers about two-thirds of the federal workforce, according to the National Treasury Employees Union, which filed a lawsuit challenging it.

The judge cites Trump v. United States in her effort to dismiss charges for helping an illegal immigrant’s attempt to escape from federal agents.

During oral arguments,Judge Florence Pan appeared critical of the position that Trump is allowed to remove independent board members.

Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a shipping company’s motion for

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks — have had to scale back their news programming.

Judge Florence Pan pressed the DOJ's lawyer about the broader implications of his argument that President Donald Trump’s firing of two multi-member independent agency members was lawful, questioning how the Federal Reserve and administrative courts would be affected if the government's view were adopted.