A federal judge is allowing the release of deposition videos of two former DOGE staffers, ruling that the risk of “embarrassment and reputational harm” is not enough to overcome the public interest in the videos.
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon on Monday lifted an earlier order requiring a group of nonprofits to remove the videos from the internet after lawyers with the Justice Department argued that the former DOGE staffers faced threats because of the depositions’ release.
While Judge McMahon acknowledged that the former staffers faced threats, she said the DOJ could not prove a “particularized harm” to the former staffers that would overcome the public interest in their official conduct as government employees.
Um, were those other videos actually deleted?
Also, it’s not like this is revenge porn or something. These are depositions paid for by us taxpayers, of people paid by us to supposedly do their “work”. Under what possible pretext should we not have access to them?
Uhm, it all comes back to the EO, which sums it up better than I could.