The Justice Department’s effort to sweep up phone and email information from congressional staffers during a 2017 investigation into the leak of classified information to the media likely also identified whistleblowers who were reporting problems within the DOJ to congressional overseers.
And a federal judge involved in a case where a watchdog group is suing to get information out of the Justice Department pertaining to that investigation is the same judge who recently made headlines for trying to stop the Trump administration from deporting criminal illegal aliens.
In a case with ramifications for the First Amendment and the separation of powers between the executive branch and Congress, that watchdog group, Empower Oversight, is appealing the ruling of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who allowed the Justice Department to keep secret certain internal documents…
