Seattle Cops To SCOTUS: Shield Our J6 Attendance

Courthouse News reports:

In a Supreme Court application docketed Tuesday, the group of four Seattle police officers explained that they had attended Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally in D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021. Just hours after Trump’s remarks at that event, a group of his supporters breached the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to halt the congressional certification of then-President-elect Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.

An internal investigation conducted by the Seattle Police Department found no wrongdoing, the applicants said. Despite that, “several” members of the public made records requests with the department seeking information about police officers who had participated in the Jan. 6 rally.

The four law enforcement officers sued to block the release of the internal investigation, and during litigation asked to be identified using pseudonyms. Washington’s court of appeals ruled that withholding such information was acceptable, reasoning that the First Amendment grants people the right to be anonymous while in public.

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