Everything You Need to Know About Justice Barrett’s First Case at the Supreme Court

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett appeared skeptical of too much Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) sunlight during her first stab at oral arguments in an environmental law case heard on Monday.

Stylized as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club, the dispute concerns whether internal decision-making documents are part of a formal process under the Endangered Species Act and therefore able to be accessed by the public.