On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued another unanimous decision, though this one flew a bit under the radar (pardon the pun) relative to, say, for instance, the Colorado ballot/14th Amendment ruling from earlier in March. Rather than elections, this case involves national security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “No Fly” list — and possible recourse for individuals wrongly included on it.
The short version of the story is that Yonas Fikre’s lawsuit against the FBI may proceed (for now) and wasn’t rendered moot by the bureau’s removal of Fikre from the list. The long version is a bit more involved.
The decision was a victory for Yonas Fikre, a U.S. citizen of Eritrean descent who was living in Sudan when he learned in 2010 that he had been placed on the list. When Fikre traveled to the United Arab Emirates a few months later, he was arrested, imprisoned, and tortured….
