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Atty General Jeff Sessions Stifles Dissent
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
29 Aug 2017
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In seeking the identities of 1.3 million visitors to a web site for protests against Donald Trump’s inauguration, last January, Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department is “trying to silence and chill and intimidate people from speaking out,” said Chip Gibbons, of Defending Rights and Dissent. Two hundred people face prison terms for the inaugural protests.

4th Amendment
right to privacy

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