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A U.S. Department of Justice lawyer told a D.C. appeals court Thursday that an advocacy group seeking President Donald Trump’s tax returns hadn’t “perfected” its open records request, but at least one judge on the panel appeared skeptical. Attorneys for the advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center and the DOJ sparred before the three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, as part of EPIC’s continued bid to force the IRS to hand over Trump’s tax returns. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia tossed its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit last year, a ruling Epic appealed. Michael Murray, a DOJ lawyer who argued on behalf of the IRS, urged the panel to keep the lower court ruling intact, insisting EPIC had not exhausted all remedies when it sought Trump’s tax returns through a Freedom of Information Act request. But Judge Patricia Millett bristled at what she described as the IRS’ effort to shift the burden to EPIC in establishing its case for the release of the tax returns.
The National Law Journal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Foxconn Technology Group will manage their new research partnership largely behind closed doors, documents detailing the agreement show. Foxconn and UW-Madison announced plans in August to create a technology institute on campus as well as a research facility in Mount Pleasant, where the Taiwanese electronics giant is constructing a massive flat-screen manufacturing facility with the help of up to $3.2 billion in state incentives. The deal also calls for Foxconn to provide up to $100 million in matching grants to fund engineering research at UW-Madison. The Wisconsin State Journal reported Thursday that it has obtained documents outlining the agreement between UW-Madison and Foxconn. The documents indicate the school and the company will establish a joint steering committee to oversee the partnership. UW-Madison officials told the newspaper the committee isn't subject to the state's open meetings law unless members are holding university records.
Beaumont Enterprise
Texts and emails obtained by WRAL and released Friday show UNC officials were deeply engaged when Silent Sam was pulled down Aug. 20 and in the aftermath. “You think they’re gonna take that thing down?” texted Christi Hurt, chief of staff for Student Affairs, to Winston Crisp, vice chancellor for Student Affairs. “One can hope,” Crisp responded at 8:12 p.m. “Holy shit,” Hurt texted Crisp. “No comment,” Crisp texted back.
The Daily Tar Heel
President Trump has ordered the intelligence community to "provide for the immediate declassification" of several documents related to the FBI and the Department of Justice, the White House press secretary announced Monday. The documents in question are specific pages of the June 2017 FISA warrant application related to onetime Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, all FBI interview reports prepared in connection with all FISA warrant applications in connection with Page, and all FBI reports of interviews with Justice Department lawyer Bruce Ohr prepared in connection with the FBI's Russia investigation.
NPR
Six Democratic senators filed a lawsuit Monday against the National Archives and the CIA over a Freedom of Information Act request for the documents, which include the period when Kavanaugh served in former President George W. Bush's administration. Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) filed the lawsuit claiming that the Archives and CIA have failed to comply within the time limit to respond and are "now entitled to judicial action enjoining the agency from continuing to withhold agency records and ordering the production of agency records improperly withheld."
Politico
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