Judge allows challenge to terrorist watchlist to move ahead

FALLS CHURCH, Va, (AP) — A federal judge in Maryland is allowing dozens of Muslim plaintiffs to move ahead with a lawsuit against Attorney General William Barr and other federal officials challenging the constitutionality of the government’s watchlist of people identified as “known or suspected terrorists.” Government lawyers had asked a judge in Greenbelt to toss out the lawsuit. But in a 65-page ruling issued Monday, she allowed the lawsuit to proceed. The judge did tos