ACLU files federal suit against U.S. Patriot Act
0 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Jul 31, 2003
DETROIT (AP) -- The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday against parts of the Patriot Act that let authorities monitor books people read and conduct secret searches.
"Ordinary Americans should not have to worry that the FBI is rifling through their medical records, seizing their personal papers, or forcing charities and advocacy groups to divulge membership lists," said ACLU attorney Ann Beeson.
In March, the U.S. Supreme Court declined without comment to consider an earlier ACLU challenge to the government's expanded surveillance powers under the act, which Congress passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
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The group asked the justices to consider when the government should be allowed to monitor telephone conversations and e-mail, then use the information to prosecute the monitored person.
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