A U.S. district judge ruled in favor of a legal group aligned with former President Donald Trump that sued the Biden-Harris administration for violating record retention rules.
In a 36-page opinion, Judge Rudolph Contreras found that the “CDC’s policy and practice of disposing of former employees’ emails ninety days after the end of their employment is likely unlawful.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now ordered to stop deleting former lower-level employees until at least three years have passed to be in full compliance with the National Archives protocol known as Capstone. In addition, the National Archives and Records Administration must work with Attorney General Merrick Garland to recover illegally deleted records and force the CDC to comply with the law.
The lawsuit was first filed in April after America First Legal filed a Freedom of…
