Given our current political environment this outreach by the US Attorney for DC has been widely anticipated by many in the academic publishing community. Unknown is how many similar letters have been sent (if any). What this requests suggests is that, in the view of the DC court, publishers have been tipping the scales in the conduct and publication of research such that they have a bias contrary to the views and assumptions of the republican administration and/or those on the right generally.
On the surface, there isn't much illegitimate about these questions: they are valid; however, the purpose for asking them and the interpretation of the answers is where academic and association publishers may have legitimate concerns.
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