In a development which is sure to leave Democrats furious, a Trump-aligned organization just scored a legal victory against the Biden administration. 

According to the Daily Caller, the case involved America First Legal (AFL), which was founded by attorney and former Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller.

Case concerned LGBTQ school document

The controversy began after AFL obtained a document produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) titled, "LGBTQ Inclusivity in Schools: A Self-Assessment Tool."

When AFL sought emails from former employees referencing it, the group learned that the CDC deleted communications of former staffers 90 days after their employment ended.

/1🚨BREAKING🚨

We just secured a preliminary injunction in our lawsuit against the Biden-Harris CDC for illegally deleting employees’ emails.

The National Archives and Attorney General Garland must now work to recover illegally deleted records and make CDC comply with the law: pic.twitter.com/OsYByavu06

— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) August 9, 2024

Those deletions had been made in accordance with the National Archives and Records Association’s (NARA) Capstone policy for emails, under which messages can be "adequately persevered elsewhere."

This policy allowed the CDC to circumvent the General Records Schedule (GRS) 6.1 that emails from lower-level employees be retained for three years.

CDC's conduct was "likely unlawful"

However, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras noted that while "sought and obtained" permission from NARA to adopt GRS 6.1, there is no evidence that NARA ever approved another policy for email management.

Contreras thus concluded that the CDC's conduct was "likely unlawful" and ordered it "to recover -- to the extent reasonably possible -- the emails of former CDC employees that have been prematurely destroyed or deleted."

The Daily Caller noted that Gene Hamilton serves as executive director of America First Legal, and he hailed Contreras's ruling in a press release.

"The Biden-Harris Administration was actively destroying the records of federal employees at the CDC in blatant violation of the law–and we are pleased that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ordered a stop to their illegal conduct," Hamilton asserted

Miller calls decision "another historic courtroom victory"

"The Department of Justice has rightfully been ordered to assist with retrieving these records and putting an end to these illegal practices," he continued.

"The Biden-Harris Administration’s politicization of records management must end, and we look forward to holding them accountable for their illegal actions in all such circumstances," went on to declare.

Miller spoke up as well in a statement posted to social media, saying, "This is another historic courtroom victory for America First Legal against widespread government corruption."