Court Should Curb Abuse of Grand Jury Subpoenas Targeting Social Media Users

Filed by Dana Graviton

A federal appeals court should curb the government’s abuse of grand jury subpoenas to unmask social media users who criticize lawless immigration enforcement. That is the message from the ACLU, EFF, and other civil liberties and trade groups who filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a sealed case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The case involves the government’s investigation of an anonymous Reddit user who commented on a post about an immigration officer in Minnesota.