Anti-Secrecy Lawsuits Soaring Against Pruitt's EPA -
"The suits have come from open government groups, environmentalists and even conservative organizations that have run into a wall trying to pry information out of Pruitt's agency."
Why this is important: The United States Supreme Court explained the basic purpose of FOIA "is to ensure an informed citizenry, vital to the functioning of a democratic society, needed to check against corruption and to hold the governors accountable to the governed." While FOIA is an important mechanism that allows the citizenry to keep tabs on its government, it has also been abused in order to overwhelm governmental agencies or to attack individual office holders. In 2017, the EPA had 55 FOIA lawsuits filed against it....
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