@SusanESeager

1st Amend lawyer. Adjunct Prof., UC Irvine Law School, Press Freedom Project. Putting the Bite Back into the Public Records Act. [email protected]

 California, USA
ipat.law.uci.edu/press-freedom-and-transparency/
Joined September 2009
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Susan E. Seager retweeted
Courthouse News
@CourthouseNewsSep 25
A D.C. Circuit panel appeared likely to side with the Trump administration in a long-running dispute over whether a federal judge exceeded his authority by ordering the government to return Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador in 2025. @ryan_knappy courthousenews.com/dc-circui…

DC Circuit split on returning migrants from foreign prisons

A federal judge in Washington ordered the government to facilitate the return of hundreds of migrants who were deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison and since released to Venezuela.

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I’m a real person.
Josh Weinberger (@[email protected] on Mastodon)@kitsonAug 20
Replying to @APStylebook
How do you know "Susan Seager" isn't herself an AI-generated fiction?
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“Confabulation” is too fancy. “Fabrication” is simple to understand.
Karl Frank@KarlAlanFrankAug 20
Replying to @APStylebook
Confabulation, not hallucination. Hinton says it's the more accurate term, and that human memory works the same way. No filing cabinet, no stored text. We rebuild from connection strengths, filling gaps so the story coheres. Invented details feel as certain as real ones.
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It’s not a controversy. It’s illegal. It violates the federal Privacy Protection Act of 1980, which bans search warrants of newsrooms, reporters’ computers, notebooks, and other unpublished information.
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwaldJan 14
A huge controversy of the Obama DOJ was when it obtained the phone records of Fox's James Rosen, then two AP reporters, to find out who was leaking classified docs. The Trump FBI just searched the home of a WashPost reporter with the same motive: nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/po…

F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist in a Leak Investigation (Gift Article)

It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, for federal agents to search a reporter’s home.

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Susan E. Seager retweeted
Sammy Roth@Sammy_Roth31 Oct 2025
NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more. I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/…

CBS News just gutted its climate team

Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.

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“The free press has the rights it does, not for itself, but for us. Much of the free press has voluntarily surrendered, not its right, but our right, your right, to a free press.” Yale Access & Accountability Conference 2025.
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Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/fl… via @eff

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and

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Susan E. Seager@SusanESeager9 Oct 2025
What will @BobShrum do when @USC signs Trump’s fascist “compact” barring “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,” from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events” except where “external events have a direct impact” on USC?
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Susan E. Seager@SusanESeager9 Oct 2025
What will @USCGouldLaw when @USC signs Trump’s fascist “compact” barring “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,” from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events” except where “external events have a direct impact” on USC?
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I used to be able to keep these DAILY MEMOs to under 3 minutes, the last couple videos have been impossible to. ICE is escalating in Los Angeles, just look at the article version with every incident highlighted. This is only what we could confirm, only what we know of. @LATACO
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What will @USCAnnenberg do when @USC signs Trump’s fascist “compact” barring “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,” from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events” except where “external events have a direct impact” on USC?
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What will @USCGouldLaw when @USC signs Trump’s fascist “compact” barring “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,” from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events” except where “external events have a direct impact” on USC?
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What will @BobShrum do when @USC signs Trump’s fascist “compact” barring “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,” from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events” except where “external events have a direct impact” on USC?
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Susan E. Seager retweeted
UC Berkeley Law@BerkeleyLaw2 Oct 2025
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky: Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion nytimes.com/2025/10/02/opini… #Opinion via @NYTOpinion

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion (Published 2025)

There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.

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Judge strikes down Trump’s $15 billion suit against the New York Times. ⁦⁩Hey ⁦⁦@Disney⁩ and Bob Iger: why not take a cue from the brave ⁦@nytimes⁩ and fight Trump instead of bowing down to him every time? washingtonpost.com/business/…

Judge strikes down Trump’s $15 billion suit against the New York Times

A federal judge in Tampa dismissed President Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, calling it improper. Judge Steven D. Merryday allowed a new complaint to be filed within 28 days.

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Israel has killed (mostly murdered) 269 journalists since Oct. 2023.
AJ+
@ajplus16 Aug 2025
In Anas al-Sharif’s final broadcast, he showed children starving in Gaza. Hours later, Israel killed him in a targeted airstrike on press tents, along with 5 other journalists. Israel has killed at least 269 journalists in Gaza since October 2023.
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What “charm”?
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To LA #Press: if you think you shouldn’t testify in court about cops violating your rights because of the reporters privilege - you should know YOU own the privilege. Not your news org or its lawyers. It’s your choice to testify or not. And it’s your duty to testify.
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Jon Favreau
@jonfavs8 Jun 2025
Great biography - I’d grab a copy while it’s still legal
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Thin and scrawny but strong and thorny stems of hope for democracy and human rights in America. #rollupyoursleeves #rollupoursleeves
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