President Trump has kept lots of constitutional rights activists like me quite busy since his return to the Oval Office. His misuse of federal agents and multiple state National Guard personnel from Red states in Blue cities for pretextual immigration enforcement actions that double as political repression operations has been a particular focus of mine.

But you don’t have to be America’s chief executive in order to have the power to try to violate a citizen’s rights. You can be a career bureaucrat and do it behind a veil of secrecy, believing that your actions will never see the light of day.

Fortunately, and at least occasionally, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and its companion statute, the Privacy Act (PA), can help reveal the dubious or even unlawful actions of those in the E

See Full Page