According to a report from The New York Times' Devlin Barrett , the recently brokered bipartisan deal to reopen the federal government "would create a wide legal avenue for senators to sue" the federal government for searching their phone records without notification.

Language in the legislation says “any senator whose Senate data, or the Senate data of whose Senate office, has been acquired, subpoenaed, searched, accessed, or disclosed in violation of this section may bring a civil action against the United States if the violation was committed by an officer, employee, or agent of the United States or of any federal department or agency.”

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) was among eight Republican lawmakers swept up in the net of the Biden administration's Arctic Frost inves

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