Years Before High Court’s Ruling Against Harvard, a FOIA Request Signaled Trouble

by John A. Jenkins | Aug 13, 2025 | Education, FOIA, Litigation, Politics

FOIAengine Explores a Courtroom Sideshow in SFFA v. Harvard Amid the sprawling, years-long litigation in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that ultimately reshaped the legal landscape for affirmative action in college admissions, a little-noticed courtroom...

How the Media Probes Trump’s Trade and Immigration Enforcement

by Randy Miller | Jul 24, 2025 | FOIA, News Media, Politics

FOIAengine: Requests Run the Gamut from Child Detentions to China Trade In the six months since President Trump’s inauguration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has received hundreds of news media Freedom of Information Act requests seeking information about the...

Reporters Probe Mass Deportation Program

by Randy Miller | Jun 25, 2025 | FOIA, News Media, Politics

FOIAengine: Journalists Use FOIA to Reveal Immigration Arrests and Contracts National and local journalists are using Freedom of Information Act requests to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to investigate the inner workings of the Trump Administration’s...

The Crook, the Tycoon, the Short Seller, and Trump

by John A. Jenkins | May 14, 2025 | FOIA, Law Firms, Litigation, Politics, Short-Selling, Stock Market

FOIAengine Tracks the High Cost of Getting Even, and the Rewards Until six weeks ago, Jason Galanis was Inmate 80739-198 at the federal prison in Montgomery, Alabama, sentenced to almost 16 years confinement after admitting to a wild scheme in which he swindled tens...

Billion-Dollar Shakedown: As Trump Punishes Big Law, Project 2025 Follows Up

by John A. Jenkins | Apr 30, 2025 | FOIA, Law Firms, Litigation, Non-Profits, Politics

FOIAengine: Heritage’s Oversight Project Probes Law Firm Ties to Biden Amid President Trump’s recent high-profile efforts to punish or extract concessions from major law firms, a second front, much less publicized, has opened, with organizers of Project 2025 using the...

News Media and Non-Profits Probe New Trump Initiatives

by Randy Miller | Mar 26, 2025 | FOIA, News Media, Non-Profits, Politics

FOIAengine: Leading Topics Include DOGE, Executive Orders and Confidential Data As President Donald Trump moves quickly to implement his ambitious agenda, media organizations and non-profits are accelerating and sharpening their use of Freedom of Information Act...