{"id":644149,"date":"2026-07-31T00:35:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=644149"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:35:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:35:37","slug":"court-orders-discovery-in-blumenthals-case-against-us-govt-recognizes-fourth-amendment-violations-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=644149","title":{"rendered":"Court orders discovery in Blumenthal\u2019s case against US govt, recognizes Fourth Amendment violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court has granted discovery in Max Blumenthal\u2019s lawsuit against DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and called the seizure of his phones a violation of his constitutional rights. The judge framed the case as part of a wider assault on press freedom by the Trump administration. This article was adapted from the ADC and includes additional information and analysis by The Grayzone. Read a full transcript of the hearing here. On July 29, The Grayzone\u2019s Max Blumenthal had his day [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2026\/07\/30\/court-blumenthals-us-fourth-amendment-violations\/\">Court orders discovery in Blumenthal\u2019s case against US govt, recognizes Fourth Amendment violations<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/\">The Grayzone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2026\/07\/30\/court-blumenthals-us-fourth-amendment-violations\/\">Court orders discovery in Blumenthal\u2019s case against US govt, recognizes Fourth Amendment violations<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/\">The Grayzone<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court has granted discovery in Max Blumenthal\u2019s lawsuit against DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and called the seizure of his phones a violation of his constitutional rights. The judge framed the case as part of a wider assault on press freedom by the Trump administration. This article was adapted from the ADC and includes&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=644149\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Court orders discovery in Blumenthal\u2019s case against US govt, recognizes Fourth Amendment violations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}