Allies of President Donald Trump have lost their bid to see plans that the Biden administration had asked EPA, the Interior Department and other agencies to develop to promote voter registration and participation.
In a ruling issued Friday, three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously agreed that the documents are protected by the presidential communications privilege under the Freedom of Information Act.
Judge Brad Garcia, who led the court’s opinion, said the panel disagreed with challengers’ main argument that “the strategic plans were not inputs into presidential deliberations and decisionmaking, but instead documented ‘actions to be taken by each agency, independent of any decisionmaking or deliberation by the President.’”
The Biden administration’s opponent in the case, the America First Legal Foundation, was founded by Stephen Miller, currently Trump’s White House deputy chief of staff for policy and U.S. homeland security adviser.
