{"id":655032,"date":"2026-08-20T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=655032"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:00:46","slug":"adc-files-federal-lawsuit-against-dhs-and-cbp-over-unconstitutional-targeting-of-max-blumenthal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=655032","title":{"rendered":"ADC files federal lawsuit against DHS and CBP over unconstitutional targeting of Max Blumenthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ADC is suing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the government\u2019s seizure and attempted forensic search of Max Blumenthal\u2019s phones after returned from a reporting trip to Iran. The lawsuit accuses the government of not only violating his Fourth Amendment rights, but of retaliating against him for his journalism and constitutionally protected opinions. Laura Loomer has boasted of lobbying top Trump officials to imprison Blumenthal, and effectively took credit for the seizure of his devices. Was federal law enforcement weaponized [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2026\/08\/20\/adc-federal-lawsuit-dhs-cbp-blumenthal\/\">ADC files federal lawsuit against DHS and CBP over unconstitutional targeting of Max Blumenthal<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/\">The Grayzone<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ADC is suing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the government\u2019s seizure and attempted forensic search of Max Blumenthal\u2019s phones after returned from a reporting trip to Iran. The lawsuit accuses the government of not only violating his Fourth Amendment rights, but of retaliating against him for his journalism and constitutionally protected opinions. Laura Loomer&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=655032\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ADC files federal lawsuit against DHS and CBP over unconstitutional targeting of Max Blumenthal<\/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":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655032","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=655032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}