Antifa Civil Lawsuit

The first civil lawsuit has been filed over Trump's designation of Antifa (anti-fascists) as a domestic terrorist group. The Protect Democracy Project filed FOIA requests to Dept of Treasury, DHS, State Dept, and FinCEN "seeking records with the potential to shed light on whether and how these executive actions are being used to target perceived political enemies of the Trump Administration." None of the agencies responded to the FOIA requests, so they've filed a federal lawsuit.

It isn't included in the lawsuit (yet), but yesterday at a House Homeland Security hearing FBI agent Michael Glasheen who is serving as operations director of the National Security Branch said that he agreed with Trump that antifa is the greatest national security threat facing the US. Then he really struggled when asked very basic questions by Rep. Bennie Thompson. That's because antifa is not an organization in the US. There are no leaders and there is no hierarchy. It is just a term for people who are anti-fascists (which are most sane people) and Trump is using that self-imagined boogeyman to go after anyone who disagrees with him. I guess that means the government is admitting it is fascist if anti-fascists are its greatest enemy?

Here's the 13-page Complaint.