An appeals court ruled that a congressional minority has the standing to enforce requests for government information. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 in favor of a group of House Democrats who serve on the House Oversight and Reform Committee who wanted to obtain records from the General Services Administration (GSA). They had sought to get information about the federal government’s lease of the Old Post Office building in the city to the Trump Organization that was used for the Trump International Hotel. The majority of the court ruled that the House members had standing and had suffered injury from the agency’s refusal to provide the information after they had demanded it. They said that lawmakers can resort to the courts to enforce a law known as the seven-member rule, which dates back to 1928. “It is concrete—the request was made and straightforwardly denied; the Requesters have been and remain empty-handed,” …