Claim

Doe vs. Ashcroft ASSOCIATED_WITH National Security Letter Provision

The district judge in Doe vs. Ashcroft declared the National Security Letter provision unconstitutional, but stayed the decision during the government's appeal.

Episode
EP 176 — NSL
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
98% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Nick Merrill
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“the judge issued a decision saying this is unconstitutional”

Nick Merrill · offsets 30618–30677

“I’m issuing a stay on the decision”

Nick Merrill · offsets 31450–31484

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T09:02:56.516779+00:00

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