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POLITICO: The law everyone is suddenly turning to because of DOGE

March 6, 2025

“In normal times, agencies are the primary enforcement mechanism for federal laws that address how agencies are structured and should behave,” John Davisson, the director of litigation at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which is suing the Trump administration for Privacy Act violations. “These obligations are taken seriously, and when that drops away, when you suddenly have a top-down policy of non-enforcement or disregard for these statutes, you have to fall back on the alternative methods of enforcement, and that is the courts.”

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