Carnahan v. Maloney

In February 2017, then-House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings and seven other members of the Committee issued a Section 2954 request for information to the General Services Administration regarding the lease agreement between then-President Donald Trump and the Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C. The GSA did not respond until July 2017, after repeated follow-ups, when it rejected the requests on the basis that “individual members of Congress . . . do not have the authority to conduct oversight in the absence of specific delegation by a full house, committee, or subcommittee.” Cummings and the other members of the Committee filed suit in November 2017 against the then-Acting Administrator of the GSA. The district court dismissed the suit for lack of standing, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed and remanded.