The Centers for Disease Control and Infection (CDC) has likely been breaking the law for years, according to a new ruling by a federal judge imposing an immediate injunction on the agency’s practices, which will have vast repercussions for all agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The ruling came Friday, for a case brought by the conservative legal organization, America First Legal Foundation, after it found through a FOIA request that the emails of several employees of the CDC “had likely been destroyed” after leaving:
The dispute arose last year, when the Trump-aligned America First Legal Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records about a CDC publication entitled “LGBTQ Inclusivity in Schools: A Self-Assessment Tool.” After months of wrangling, the CDC identified three employees who worked on the document but indicated that…
