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Instructions · What links here · Alex Charns (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 22 days ago by Acharns5 (talk: D · +) · Last edited 21 days ago by Bobby Cohn

Submission declined on 4 May 2026 by Johannes Maximilian (talk).

Can you please fix your source code? It is obviously gibberish. --Johannes (Talk) (Contribs) (Articles) 15:54, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

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Declined by Johannes Maximilian 30 days ago. Last edited by Bobby Cohn 21 days ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Submission declined on 4 May 2026 by EF5 (talk).

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Comment: In accordance with Wikipedia's Conflict of interest guideline, I disclose that I have a conflict of interest regarding the subject of this article. Acharns5 (talk) 11:51, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

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Alex Charns is a Durham, NC criminal defense attorney and author.^[1] He has litigated against the FBI and obtained tens of thousands of Bureau files on the Supreme Court and its justices.^[2] His nonfiction books include "Cloak and Gavel: FBI Wiretaps, Bugs, Informers and the Supreme Court" (Univ. of Illinois Press 1982), and "FBI Snitches, Blackmail and Obscene Ethics at the Supreme Court" (Bull City Law Publishing 2025),^[3], a novel about Director J. Edgar Hoover's blackmail of Justice Abe Fortas is "Queer Justice."^[4] "Per Charns’ detailed and convincing narrative, one of the most high-ranking victims of Hoover’s machinations was Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. Based on FBI files Charns obtained through a lengthy, litigious Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI, the author details how Hoover leveraged the 1960s’ rampant homophobia against Fortas, who became one of the FBI’s most high-level informants."^[5]

The FBI files obtained in his litigation against the FBI are publicly available at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Villanova Law School.^[6]

References

^ "Alexander Charns Cloak and Gavel Collection | Villanova University".
^ "F.b.i. Kept a File on Supreme Court". The New York Times. 21 August 1988.
^ "Charns Continues Pursuit of Truth in "FBI Snitches, Blackmail, and Obscene Ethics at the Supreme Court" - North Carolina Bar Association". 19 February 2025.
^ "Queer Justice: A Novel by Alex Charns".
^ "FBI SNITCHES, BLACKMAIL, AND OBSCENE ETHICS … | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews.
^ "Alexander Charns Papers, 1930-1990".

[1] "Alexander Charns Cloak and Gavel Collection | Villanova University".

[2] "F.b.i. Kept a File on Supreme Court". The New York Times. 21 August 1988.

[3] "Charns Continues Pursuit of Truth in "FBI Snitches, Blackmail, and Obscene Ethics at the Supreme Court" - North Carolina Bar Association". 19 February 2025.

[4] "Queer Justice: A Novel by Alex Charns".

[5] "FBI SNITCHES, BLACKMAIL, AND OBSCENE ETHICS … | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews.

[6] "Alexander Charns Papers, 1930-1990".

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