Republicans Playing the Oppo Game

FOIAengine Looks at Opposition Research on the Right

By John A. Jenkins, Law Street Media, Sept. 7, 2023

In the shadowy world of political opposition research, sometimes the game looks like Spy vs. Spy.  That’s particularly true right now, in the run-up to next year’s presidential election.  As more than a dozen Republican hopefuls jockey for position, a raft of newly created research groups with ties to the former Trump Administration have jumped into the fray, blanketing the federal government with thousands of FOIA requests. 

Measured by the sheer number of Freedom of Information Act requests and resultant lawsuits, the new research groups are subsuming work once the purview of the well-established Republican oppo machine, America Rising. 

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