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[JURIST] The Columbia University Knight First Amendment Institute on Monday filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Trump administration seeking release of data on how often US citizens and others had electronic devices searched at border crossings. The lawsuit [press release], filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [text], is aimed at requiring the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reveal when it has searched US citizens and other travelers. The Knight Institute filed a FOIA request, and DHS has failed to respond up to this point. The lawsuit notes that news reports have claimed border officials seem to have targeted Muslims for electronic searches, and argues that searches have increased dramatically since President Donald Trump took office.

Trump's immigration policies have been contentious since the beginning of his administration. In February DHS released [JURIST report] two memoranda to the department directing agency employees to implement Trump's immigration executive orders. The orders require federal agencies to hire 15,000 more border patrol and immigration officers. Taken as a whole, Trump's immigration policies have marked a departure [JURIST op-ed] from the policies of other US Presidents since WWII.

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Supreme Court: State's Restriction On Credit Card Surcharges Is A Free Speech Regulation Consumerist The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that a New York state law barring merchants from adding credit card surcharges is indeed a state regulation on businesses' free expression. However, whether that law goes so far as to violate the First Amendment is ... and more »

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Herald-Leader sues city of Lexington, alleging First Amendment violations Lexington Herald Leader The Lexington Herald-Leader has sued the city of Lexington, alleging that a new ordinance which restricts where publications can be delivered runs afoul of the First Amendment. Lexington H-L Services Inc., doing business as the Lexington ...

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Hillary Clinton said the withdrawal of the GOP health care bill last week was "a victory for all Americans." She criticized the Trump administration for having the fewest number of women in top jobs "in a generation." Ben Margot/AP hide caption

Hillary Clinton said the withdrawal of the GOP health care bill last week was "a victory for all Americans." She criticized the Trump administration for having the fewest number of women in top jobs "in a generation."

Hillary Clinton criticized the lack of diversity in the Trump White House and the ill-fated Republican health care proposal in what were her most political public remarks since losing the November presidential election to Donald Trump.

Clinton made her observations in an address to the Professional BusinessWomen of California in San Francisco on Tuesday night. "There's no place I'd rather be than here with you," she told the gathering, adding, "other than the White House."

Clinton said she was appalled by a photo that circulated last week of an all-male group of Republican lawmakers meeting at the White House with Vice President Pence discussing women's health care.

And she chastised Trump, whom she did not mention by name, for having the fewest number of women in top jobs "in a generation." There are just four women holding Cabinet-level jobs in the administration out of 23 such positions. Clinton had promised women would fill half of her Cabinet jobs.

She also was critical of comments by White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who told American Urban Radio Networks White House correspondent April Ryan, "Please, stop shaking your head," during Tuesday's press briefing. "Too many women have had a lifetime of practice taking this kind of indignity in stride," Clinton said.

She said the withdrawal of the GOP health care bill last week was "a victory for all Americans," singling out efforts to end coverage mandates in particular. "Really? Take away maternity care?" she asked. "Who do these people talk to?"

Clinton said the death of the measure was a sign that efforts to organize in opposition to Trump's agenda could work, citing the Women's March on Washington the day after Trump's inauguration. "There were plenty of people, as you might expect, who wondered whether that level of energy and enthusiasm would be sustained and whether it would make any difference," Clinton said. "I'm here to tell you, last week we saw the first indication that the answer to both of those questions is yes."

Clinton has generally kept a low profile since her defeat in November, but has said that she intends to start speaking out again on issues. She was critical of the Trump administration's efforts to bar refugees from entering the country, and to take action against what Trump insists was voter fraud during his successful campaign last year.

"These are bad policies that will hurt people and take our country in the wrong direction."

And referring to the hiking she has been seen doing with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, near their suburban New York home, she added, "It's the kind of things you think about when you take long walks in the woods: Resist, insist, persist, enlist."

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Hillary Clinton on Tuesday gave one of her first public speeches since losing the presidential election and criticized the much-circulated photo showing an all-male group of Republican lawmakers last month negotiating womens coverage in health care legislation.

She mentioned a social-media parody of it that showed an all-dog panel deciding on feline care.

I am here today to urge us not to grow tired. Not to be discouraged and disappointed. Not to throw up our hands because change is not happening fast enough, Clinton said. We need more women at any table, at any conference call or email chain where decisions are made.

Without mentioning President Trump by name, Clinton faulted the Republican presidential administration repeatedly, including calling its representation of women in top jobs the lowest in a generation.

She rebuked White House press secretary Sean Spicer, again not by name, for hours earlier Tuesday chiding a black woman journalist during a news conference for shaking her head.

Too many women have had a lifetime of practice taking this kind of indignity in stride, Clinton said. I mean, its not like I didnt know all the nasty things they were saying about me. I thought some of them were kind of creative."

Clinton cracked jokes about her November defeat and her months out of the limelight since, Clinton spoke to thousands of businesswomen in San Francisco, joking there was no place shed rather be, other than the White House.

Trump has named four women to his Cabinet, the same number as in former President George W. Bushs first Cabinet. Trump earlier this week pointed to the work he planned to have his daughter, Ivanka Trump Kushner, do on childcare and other issues involving working women and men in her unsalaried role in his administration.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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