Supreme Court sides with FBI in suit brought by Muslim Americans on spying
ABC News
The Supreme Court sided with the FBI in a suit brought by Muslim Americans alleging religious discrimination by spying.
A unanimous Supreme Court on Friday dealt a setback to three Muslim Americans who are trying to sue the FBI for religious discrimination over surveillance in their place of worship after 9/11.
The narrow decision, written by Justice Samuel Alito, reverses an appeals court decision that would have allowed the suit to move forward over claims by the government that doing so would risk disclosing secret and classified information.
Yassir Fazaga, a former imam at the Orange County Islamic Foundation, and Ali Uddin Malik and Yasser AbdelRahim, both members of the Islamic Center of Irvine, allege the government and its agents illegally targeted members of the faith communities solely because of their religion.
It's the second endorsement by the court in as many days of the government's sweeping state secrets power. On Thursday, the justices quashed a bid by a Guantanamo detainee to depose former CIA contractors about alleged torture at an agency black site.
