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The ACLU-DC is trying to stop three search warrants thatd let the Department of Justice snoop around protesters Facebook accounts over Inauguration Day protests. They filed in D.C. Superior Court on Thursday, saying the governments demands violate the Fourth Amendment because they are so broad, and threatening First Amendment speech. These warrants ask for too much information not directly relevant to the federal probe, argues the ACLU. This includes information on the plaintiffs friends, associates, and the approximately 6000 individuals who just liked an anti-Donald Trump Facebook page. Requested data would go back to Nov. 1, 2016, a week before the presidential election.
The warrants make no provision for avoiding or minimizing invasions into personal and associational/expression information, for preventing such information from being shared widely within the government, or for destroying irrelevant material when the investigation is concluded, said the ACLU filing. In other words, this might chill First Amendment speech by giving the government means to observe anyone who were simply linked to anti-Trump protesters.
This fight stems from arrests made Jan. 20. Demonstrators came to Washington D.C. to protest President Donald Trumps inauguration, and over 200 ended up getting charged with felony rioting. In investigating the alleged criminality, the federal government later got three search warrants from the D.C. Superior Court against three Facebook accounts: the disruptj20 page (now known as Resist This) owned by Emmelia Talarico, and personal accounts owned by Lacy MacAuley, and Legba Carrefour. According to the ACLU, these people didnt initially know about warrants because of a gag order. Facebook fought this gag order, which was later dropped by the government shortly before the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled on it. Talarico, MacAuley, and Carrefour hadnt even been charged with Inauguration Day-related arrested by the US Attorney, said the ACLU.
The DOJ declined to comment.
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There ain't no Justice in that Department.
spanone
(135,874 posts)This is bullshit.
winetourdriver01
(1,154 posts)Our beloved Republic died a lonely death sometime during the Reagan administration.
brush
(53,868 posts)therefore, fuck trump, sessions and that whole stinking, cheating, Russian-colluding, traitorous repug party.
arthritisR_US
(7,292 posts)dembotoz
(16,832 posts)To like an anti Donald Trump page...nope..none of us..ever
lastlib
(23,287 posts)*Department Of Obnoxious Fascist Usurpation and Suppression