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The House voted to formalize the next phase of the impeachment process yesterday. Given the White House's stonewalling, we've filed four different lawsuits to get documents related to the president's Ukraine dealings: americanoversight.org/investigation/…

Here's what we've been asking for:
We sued the State Department for Rudy Giuliani's communications with senior department officials as well as any other communications about efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden or his son: americanoversight.org/were-suing-the…
In a major victory against the White House's stonewalling, a federal judge ordered the State Department to turn over Ukraine-related documents by November 22 — and the department said it will: americanoversight.org/federal-judge-…
We filed a second lawsuit against the State Dept. for emails sent by Secretary of State Pompeo or other senior officials referencing President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden, or Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman: americanoversight.org/document/compl…
Energy Secretary Perry may be heading back to Texas but that doesn't mean he won't have to answer questions about his role in the president's Ukraine dealings, including the May 2019 delegation he led to Ukraine. We sued to find out more: americanoversight.org/new-lawsuit-se…
An unnamed official in the White House budget office indicated that the order to freeze Ukraine aid came from President Trump, according to testimony given to Congress. We sued OMB to uncover the paper trail: americanoversight.org/document/compl…
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The Supreme Court heard arguments this morning that could decide the fate of DACA, which will impact almost 700,000 undocumented immigrants: thehill.com/regulation/cou…
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1. This week the House released multiple interview transcripts from the impeachment depositions. While everyone else was hunting for new details of the President's Ukraine extortion campaign, we've been looking for clues about documents we could FOIA. americanoversight.org/what-we-learne…
2. FOIA is a powerful tool that lets the public obtain government documents. It can be even more effective if you identify a specific record that you want released – and the transcripts identified and described multiple specific records.
3. In March 2018, after Donald Trump Jr. sent a tweet calling her a “joker,” then U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch sent an email to Undersecretary David Hale to voice her alarm and seek support. apps.npr.org/documents/docu…
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