{"id":38066,"date":"2021-07-23T18:23:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T01:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38066"},"modified":"2021-07-23T18:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T01:23:52","slug":"aclu-calls-for-investigation-into-alaska-official-over-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38066","title":{"rendered":"ACLU calls for investigation into Alaska official over tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Alaska is calling for an investigation into an Alaskan official over controversial tweets discovered by The Guardian news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>ACLU spokesperson Megan Edge wants a \u201ctransparent and timely\u201d investigation into state Assistant Attorney General Matthias Cicotte, Edge said in a statement to The Hill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mtssmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqtwsby_xbjdrrhvhtdbvjgjcbjv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mtssmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqtwsby_xbjdrrhvhtdbvjgjcbjv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1627166146415000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE9eLB3o4UYYk2PhJRtydV1QnOMxg\">The Guardian reported<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday that Cicotte was going by the name J Reuben Clark on Twitter to post controversial tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Although the tweets have been deleted, The Guardian reported that the tweets included calls for violence against left-wing groups, execution for those who perform gender reassignment surgeries and summary imprisonment for Black Lives Matter protesters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38067,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38066\/revisions\/38067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}