In a recent post post, I mentioned that the the legislation that ended the government shutdown included a rider that would make it illegal in most cases to obtain a senator's phone data without disclosure, and violation would allow impacted senators to sue the Justice Department for $500,000 per violation, plus attorney fees and costs. Furthermore, the legislation was retroactive, providing several senators with the legal ability to sue the DoJ for previous action related to the January 6 capitol riot.
Today the House of Representatives unanimously approved a separate piece of legislation that stripped that rider, and it was subsequently sent to the Senate where, lo and behold, Lindsay Graham, one of the senators who would stand to personally benefit from this legislation, single-handedly stopped the bill in the Senate.
My summary is a gross over-simplification of the issue, but it's once again good to know that our elected representatives have only our best interest at heart.
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