By Susan Gonzalez
May 11, 2021
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Top row: Emma Brodey, Serena Cho, Maria Gargiulo, Meghanlata Gupta; Middle row: Henry Jacob, Selena Lee, Michaellah Mapotaringa, Keshav Raghavan; Bottom row: Antoinette Roberts, Karen Tai, Helen Zhao
Ten Yale seniors and a Yale College alumna have been awarded fellowships from a variety of organizations for graduate study at Oxford and Cambridge universities. These are in addition to students, previously announced in YaleNews, who have won Rhodes, Marshall, and Gates-Cambridge Scholarships.
The fellowship winners and their awards are:
Emma Brodey ’21 has been awarded the King’s-Yale Fellowship to pursue an M.Phil. in English at Cambridge University, where she will study 18th-century and Romantic literature and the history of the book. At Yale, she is an English major focusing her studies on 19th-century English literature and creative n
ACLU warns that major government surveillance decisions are happening in secret Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen
Supreme Court Justices
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is raising concerns about the level of transparency, or lack thereof, the U.S. government exercises when it comes to electronic surveillance.
It has been noted that the FISC s use of secret legal opinion has had a major impact on Americans privacy rights, freedom of expression, and free association. Now, they are asking for the U.S. Supreme Court to execute an order for the FISC to publish its secret opinions and only implement redactions that are absolutely necessary to serve as a preventative measure where real harm is an threat to national security.
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High Court Urged To Make Foreign Intel Court Rulings Public
Law360 (April 19, 2021, 9:52 PM EDT) The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether the public has a First Amendment right to access the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court s rulings on the scope of U.S. government surveillance stemming from foreign intelligence probes.
In the latest salvo in a legal battle dating back to 2013, the ACLU, Columbia University s Knight First Amendment Institute and Yale Law School s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic asked the high court to consider for the first time whether the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court must disclose redacted versions of its rulings regarding the government s bulk.
Supreme Court asked to make foreign intelligence court opinions public
The ACLU and other groups asked the Supreme Court on Monday to consider whether a special court that reviews government requests for electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes must disclose significant opinions that came after 9/11.
The filing marks the first time the Supreme Court has been asked to resolve whether the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court must make its secret opinions public subject to redactions.
The groups, which also include the Knight Institute and the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School, are represented by former George W. Bush Solicitor General Theodore R. Olson.