EXTRA: DDC Judge Wants DHS To Say in a Week If it Will Expedite Records on Prince Harry US Visa
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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
DDC COURTHOUSE, June 6 – The US Department of Homeland Security has refused to grant expedited processing to a Freedom of Information Act request concerning their processing of a visa for Prince Harry and whether favoritism or politics were involved.
On June 6 District for the District of Columbia Judge Carl Nichols held oral argument. Inner City Press was there.
The Department of Justice, representing DHS, said among other things that only that it defined as mainstream media, limiting that term to the New York Times, Washington Post, WSJ and TV networks, can get expedited treatment.
Judge Nichols took the motion under advisement but asked DOJ to ask DHS, and report by email in a week, if it will agree to expedite or decide, to get to the merits of withholding the records, he said.
That answer, ironically, will not be public, the docket.
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