A new lawsuit seeks to shake loose information about a protester database possibly being used by the Trump administration to log and monitor critics of the government.
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Legal advocacy group Democracy Forward is supporting digital outlet The Intercept in a lawsuit that asks a federal judge to compel the administration to release documents related to any such database.
The lawsuit comes as Donald Trump’s administration — while it contends with the president’s historic unpopularity — has sought to quash dissent, in a crackdown that has seen federal agents use lethal force against protesters.
The lawsuit cites several instances in which agents either openly talked about a database for tracking protesters or alluded to such a database existing. The evidence includes comments like those in the video below, in which a protester was photographed by an agent and then told that she would be going into a “nice little database” and was now “considered a domestic terrorist.”
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The suit, which was filed Wednesday, says the federal government hasn’t complied with The Intercept’s Freedom of Information Act requests regarding the Trump administration’s collection of information on protesters, as required by law.
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