Howard Manly, Paul Harvey, Jason Miller, Trevor Griffey
The Conversation
Left out of GOP debates about “the weaponization” of the federal government is the use of the FBI to spy on civil rights leaders for most of the 20th century. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the targets.
Being a leftist — or worse, a child of leftists — in the mid-20th century meant constant harassment from the FBI. From my childhood in the 1940s and ’50s through the upheavals of the ’60s, I only told them one thing: take a hike.
Azadeh Shahshahani, Fatema Ahmad
The Progressive Magazine
After the January 6 attack, federal surveillance programs expanded to counter white supremacist violence have made Black and brown communities their main target.
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In her decision Monday, Cannon managed to cite the lone independent “statement” in a recent Supreme Court opinion from Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote that a former president like Trump does retain some executive privilege.
Scott R. Anderson, Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes
Lawfareblog
The DOJ's blistering response to Trump's request for a Special Master shows a high level of confidence about the law being on the government’s side and the damning nature of the evidence. It also shows that there’s work yet to be done.
The Justice Department’s China Initiative was established by the Trump Administration to crack down on Chinese economic and scientific espionage.
It has led to numerous miscarriages of justice.
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