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Case Summary: Fourth Circuit Upholds Terrorism Watchlist Database

Posted on June 21, 2021 by pogowasright.org

Eric Halliday and Rachael Hanna report:

On March 30, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in El-Hady v. Kable upheld the constitutionality of the Terrorism Screening Database (TSDB), a watchlist maintained by the FBI that currently contains the names of more than 1 million “known or suspected terrorists.” Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel that the TSDB was constitutional because it fell under the executive branch’s long-standing “authority to regulate travel and control the border.”

Read more on Lawfare Blog.

via Joe Cadillic

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