Legal Opinion
Ctr. for Pub. Integrity v. Fed. Election Comm'n
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided September 18, 2018No. Case No. 17-cv-1162 (CRC)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge
Following the 2017 presidential inauguration, a wave of anonymous accounts claiming to have ties to federal government agencies cropped up on Twitter. The account "handles" were styled as "@alt" followed by the particular agency's name, such as @altFEC or @ALT_USCIS. Run by those professing to be current or former agency employees, these Twitter accounts publicly criticized the associated agencies and the current Administration. This naturally raised legal questions. After receiving a summons from U.S. Customs and Border Protection for…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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