Yes, Goodlatte and his donors introduced legislation which was a massive overreaction to the issue it was "remedying". But noone had the deep pockets to fight i

Yes, Goodlatte and his donors introduced legislation which was a massive overreaction to the issue it was "remedying". But noone had the deep pockets to fight it. Oh, and there are some killer ironies in Bob Goodlatte's trajectory (I never thought I'd see a revolving door made out of paper, but now we have): Goodlatte stepped down from Congress (and House Judiciary Chair) in 2018. In February 2020, he registered as a lobbyist [0] representing (media rights holders and) and the Project for Privacy & Surveillance Accountability, a nonprofit that describes itself on its website as “a nonpartisan group of U.S. citizens who advocate for greater protection of our privacy and civil liberties in government surveillance programs.”(!) In an interview, Goodlatte said he is lobbying Congress and the administration on behalf of the nonprofit on three provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act authorizing government surveillance programs set to expire in March 2020. [1] > Goodlatte invoked surveillance abuse against Martin Luther King Jr. in the context of [alleged surveillance abuses in 2016] [2] [0]: Lobbying Firm Profile: Goodlatte, Robert https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/firms/summary?cycle=2022&id=F319290 https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/firms/summary?c... [1]: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2020/02/14/goodlatte-registers-to-lobby-785437 https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2020... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Goodlatte#Russia_probe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Goodlatte#Russia_probe