Appeals court skeptical of privacy-focused suit against Trump voter fraud panel

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




By JOSH GERSTEIN 11/21/2017 10:52 PM EST

An appeals court gave a skeptical reception Tuesday to a lawsuit claiming that President Donald Trump's voter fraud commission violated federal law by failing to study the privacy impact of a demand for voter rolls and other personal data on millions of Americans.

During oral arguments, a three-judge panel from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals didn't say much about the possibility that the President's Advisory Committee on Election Integrity violated a requirement Congress created in 2002 that federal agencies conduct a "privacy impact assessment" before embarking on collection of data on individuals.

Instead, the judges repeatedly questioned whether the organization pressing the suit — the Electronic Privacy Information Center — had legal standing to pursue the case.

"I have to say that EPIC does not seem central to the particular interests protected here," Judge Stephen Williams said, suggesting that individuals whose data was being requested might have more at stake.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/11/21/privacy-trump-voter-fraud-panel-258060

[lagomorph777]

1. Corruption of our judiciary is a major reason to get rid of Turd as quickly as possible.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Extremely misleading headline. The issue of skepticism is the plaintiffs legal standing to

bring the suit, not the merits of the suit.

Journalism dies on the title editors desk way too often for coincidence.