What is going on here? Shock ensues as document reveals USPS is monitoring social media posts alternet.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from alternet.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - The Texas Attorney General was sued in Texas federal court for alleged First and Fourteenth amendment violations by multiple individuals.
The complaint was filed on April 8 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University as well as the following individuals: Mario Carrillo, Joseph Canscino, Justin Champlin, Edward Espinoza, Omar Gallaga, Fatima Maniar, Jennifer Ramos, John Ruffier and James Scurlock.
The individuals range from journalists to project managers to students to campaign managers to attorneys, all of who have criticized Ken Paxton for issues including his policies and his federal fraud indictments and were consequentially blocked from viewing his Twitter account.
First Amendment Groups Press Supreme Court For Access To Surveillance Court Opinions wcbe.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wcbe.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Ted Olson, the former Bush-era solicitor general, is part of a coalition of First Amendment groups asking the Supreme Court to review decisions of the intelligence courts. Alex Brandon/AP
First Amendment groups are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to make public major decisions authorizing government surveillance, opinions that until now have remained almost secret.
For years, the ACLU and other groups have maintained that the public has a First Amendment right to see major decisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, decisions that authorize everything from surveillance of suspected spies and terrorists to metadata mining aimed at ferreting out potential terrorist plots, including those that involve contacts between foreigners and American citizens.