Noem and Lewandowski ordered to reveal whether they used personal devices to discuss pulling protected status
Source: Law & Crime
Jun 25th, 2025, 4:48 pm
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her adviser Corey Lewandowski have been ordered to swear — under penalty of perjury — that they didn't use their personal devices to communicate about immigration policy affecting hundreds of thousands of people.
San Francisco-based U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim issued the order on Tuesday regarding documents requested by the National TPS Alliance. The requested materials relate to the Department of Homeland Security's termination of a 2023 extension of TPS for Venezuelans and people from other countries, including Haiti. Noem and Lewandowski had previously not handed those documents over, claiming that they weren't responsive to the specific request, which included records containing search terms such as "Temporary Protected Status" and "Tren de Aragua."
The plaintiffs, however, said that the documents "would be indisputably responsive," and pushed for them to be turned over. Kim ultimately agreed. Noem, through her attorneys, has argued that the release of these documents — specifically from the final week of January — are shielded by executive or presidential communications privileges. Kim, on Tuesday, did not appear to be swayed.
"Secretary Noem and Corey Lewandowski must provide declarations under penalty of perjury that they did not use personal devices to communicate about the TPS status for Venezuelans and Haitians by July 3, 2025," she wrote in her order as part of the documents she demands the Trump administration produce.
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Full headline: 'Under penalty of perjury': Noem and Lewandowski ordered to reveal whether they used personal devices to discuss pulling protected status for hundreds of thousands of migrants
Link to ORDER - (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25983808-tps-noem-docs/
Link to ORDER - (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25983808/tps-noem-docs.pdf
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