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We are Harsha Panduranga ＆ Carrie DeCell, the attorneys challenging the U.S. government’s dragnet collection and indefinite retention of visa applicants’ social media handles. We are here to answer questions about our lawsuit. Ask Us Anything! - Politics

We are Harsha Panduranga ＆ Carrie DeCell, the attorneys challenging the U.S. government’s dragnet collection and indefinite retention of visa applicants’ social media handles. We are here to answer questions about our lawsuit. Ask Us Anything!
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We are Harsha Panduranga ＆ Carrie DeCell, the attorneys challenging the U.S. government’s dragnet collection and indefinite retention of visa applicants’ social media handles. We are here to answer questions about our lawsuit. Ask Us Anything!

Posted: 03 Jun 2020 08:08 AM PDT

We lead the litigation in Doc Society v. Pompeo, representing two documentary film organizations.

Harsha is counsel in the Liberty ＆ National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. My work at the Brennan Center focuses on pushing back against government abuses of power in the name of public safety. In addition to my involvement in Doc Society v. Pompeo, my portfolio more broadly involves opposing policies that target immigrants based on prejudice rather than proof, like the Muslim ban – as counsel to plaintiffs in Zakzok v. Trump and an advocate of the NO BAN Act – and "extreme vetting." Our other projects include opposing bills that would give the federal government additional legal tools – which are unnecessary but could be used to suppress political advocacy – to prosecute "domestic terrorism." https://www.brennancenter.org/experts/harsha-panduranga. Follow me on Twitter @harshwords222.

Carrie is a staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

I'm also a member of the team litigating Knight Institute v. Trump, establishing that public officials' social media accounts—including the presidents' Twitter account—are subject to the First Amendment. I've authored amicus briefs addressing First Amendment protections for publishers of leaked or stolen information of public concern, and statutory safeguards against government surveillance of journalists and activists. And I've joined the Institute's advocacy efforts against the prosecution of whistleblowers and publishers under the Espionage Act. https://knightcolumbia.org/authors/carrie-decell

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Trump is talking about using tanks to quell the George Floyd protests but the Pentagon is getting cold feet

Posted: 03 Jun 2020 04:44 AM PDT