This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, March 22nd, 2024.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Yonis Ficre was put on the federal no-fly list but was never charged with a crime.

Now he wants to know why, so he sued the feds. The

FBI removed him from the list and suggested he wouldn't be put back on it, thus

in their view, muting the case. The Supreme Court this week said, not so fast.

They'll allow Mr. Fickray to continue his suit.

He does Tommy Barry and Patrick Eddington comment.

To my liberty-friendly ears, this seems like a fairly straightforward issue where someone

has had the government essentially tell him he can't use a convenient means of travel and the government really is just

saying trust us we're not going to do it again is that a basic assessment of what was going on, Tommy?

Indeed, trust us. The government called it the presumption of regularity, but that's basically just

fancy words for trust us. They submitted what the court ended up calling a

terse declaration and a sparse declaration that based on

current information they would not put

Yonis Ficre back on the no-fly list. But as we saw for the court that ended up not being enough.

Tommy we've talked about this before but if you don't mind characterize what this case

was about what was actually going on.

Sure, so the allegations which the court has to take it true at this still preliminary

stage of the litigation despite it going on for several years,

is that Yonus Fichre is a U.S. citizen. He immigrated here as a child. He was living in the United States and

traveling to Sudan on business in 2009 and found out he'd been placed on the no-fly list and found himself unable to come back home to his US family and he spent

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