US EditionJudge says it’s too late to order recovery of Trump officials’ Signal messages
- A federal judge ruled in June 2025 on a lawsuit by American Oversight accusing Trump officials of using Signal to discuss military plans and auto-delete messages.
- The lawsuit followed The Atlantic revealing that officials, including Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth, used the app for official business but allowed messages to erase automatically.
- Judge Boasberg criticized the officials’ recordkeeping, found their defense weak, but said the court cannot recover already deleted messages or force record retention retroactively.
- Boasberg stated the Signal messages will likely be “lost forever to history” and said the Administrative Procedures Act does not support compelling their preservation.
- American Oversight plans further legal action to protect government records, while the White House denies wrongdoing and calls the communications unclassified and merely sensitive.
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Denver GazetteRubio ordered to refer remaining Signal texts to DOJ as court can’t do anything about deleted messages
Judge James Boasberg ordered Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the acting archivist, to collect any Signal messages belonging to top Trump administration officials and refer them to the Justice Department. Boasberg said he could not do anything about the Signal…
Judge Boasberg Is Back! Catering to a Leftist Anti-Trump Group
Federal Judge Boasberg has ordered acting United States Archivist Marco Rubio to transfer messages from the Signal group chat scandal to the DoJ. Boasberg wants them reviewed and preserved after hearing a lawsuit by a far-left organization. A lawsuit was brought by American Oversight. It’s a far-left nonprofit government watchdog that aligns with the Democrat […] The post Judge Boasberg Is Back! Catering to a Leftist Anti-Trump Group appeared fi…
Rubio ordered to refer remaining Signal texts to DOJ as court can’t do anything about deleted messages - Washington Examiner
Judge James Boasberg ordered Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the acting archivist, to collect any Signal messages belonging to top Trump administration officials and refer them to the Justice Department. Boasberg said he could not do anything about the Signal messages that have already been deleted, but the execution of his order would preserve the messages that have not yet been deleted. The order comes as a watchdog group sued several Trump ad…
Federal Judge James Boasberg orders Marc Rubio to hand over Trump officials' Signal scandal messages to DOJ; Here's why
Judge Boasberg has ordered Secretary of State Rubio to collect Signal chat messages from Trump officials for DOJ review due to potential deletion risks.
Federal judge declines to order Trump officials to recover deleted Signal messages
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has issued a preliminary injunction ordering top national security officials who discussed military operations on the encrypted messaging service Signal to notify the acting archivist of the United States of any messages they have that may be at risk of being deleted. But in calling for those records to be preserved, the ruling stopped short of ordering the government to recover past messages that may already…
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