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NEW LAWSUIT: Along with @UCSUSA, we’re suing the Trump administration for failing to release records related to its controversial decision to relocate two USDA agencies to Kansas City.

ucsusa.org/about/news/uni…
The new building selected for the KC USDA offices is co-owned by a business belonging to prominent Republican donor Michael Merriman.
The relocation resulted in a massive brain drain at each agency with over two-thirds of employees deciding to leave their jobs rather than move.

washingtonpost.com/science/2019/0…
American Oversight and UCS have already obtained more than 100 pages of records concerning the USDA office relocation in response to separate FOIA requests filed in 2019. Those documents include:
Records from USDA of communications between the USDA and Kansas state officials regarding the relocation
americanoversight.org/document/usda-…
Records from the USDA shared between the USDA and Missouri State officials regarding the relocation of research components to Kansas City
americanoversight.org/document/usda-…
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A federal judge has gutted Florida's law that required formerly incarcerated citizens to pay fines before they could exercise their right to vote.
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Key point: The court found that Florida was unable to administer the pay-to-vote system.

We've been investigating SB7066, and we found that Florida was unable to track how much money people with former felony convictions were supposed to owe — and many were unable to vote in the recent primary election. americanoversight.org/floridians-wit…
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CNN reports Pompeo pushed State officials to find a way to justify controversial arms sales to Saudi Arabia. IG Linick was reportedly investigating when he was fired.

We've #FOIA'd docs to investigate the arms deal, Linick’s removal & Pompeo’s conduct.

cnn.com/2020/05/21/pol…
This week, we asked for urgent release of records of complaints filed by employees regarding Pompeo, including related communications sent or received by Linick.

americanoversight.org/american-overs…
Here are our Freedom of Information Act requests seeking information on the questionable emergency declaration used to facilitate Saudi arms sales.

americanoversight.org/documents?fwp_…
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NEW DOCUMENTS: We obtained emails showing a top political appointee at the Small Business Administration sharing employees’ resumes with the White House official leading Trump’s loyalty purge.

americanoversight.org/emails-show-sb…
Personnel office head John McEntee reportedly held a Feb. 20 meeting in which he asked cabinet agency White House liaisons to identify political appointees and career officials they thought were anti-Trump.
We FOIA’d for liaisons’ communications with McEntee, and we received records from the Small Business Administration showing SBA Senior Adviser and White House Liaison Christopher Gray sending two officials’ resumes to McEntee on Feb. 28.
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