Douša v. DHS
Protect Democracy and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of Reverend Kaji Douša, challenging a previously secret Department of Homeland Security (DHS) surveillance operation.
October 27, 2022
Counsel
Christine Kwon focuses on legal and policy advocacy to stop and seek accountability for abuses of power and those who undermine democracy. She leads Protect Democracy’s efforts to mobilize national-security leaders to defend democracy, and has led work to prevent domestic deployment of the military and militarized law enforcement for political ends, including litigation representing protesters challenging unjust law enforcement. Christine teaches in Harvard Law School’s Democracy and the Rule of Law Clinic. She previously ran the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project at Yale Law School, served as policy advisor on a presidential campaign, and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Protect Democracy and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of Reverend Kaji Douša, challenging a previously secret Department of Homeland Security (DHS) surveillance operation.
October 27, 2022
This week, SCOTUS-watchers may have spotted an unusual filing. Nineteen retired four-star generals and admirals and former service secretaries submitted an amicus brief siding with Jack Smith on whether presidents are immune from criminal prosecution. (Full disclosure: I am one of the lawyers representing them in the filing.)
Retired top brass is not a group that often weighs in at the Supreme Court. What led these military leaders to speak out?
Defeating authoritarianism is going to take all of us. Everyone and every institution has a role to play. Together, we can protect democracy.
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