There have been times when the U.S. Constitution protected Americans. Functionally today, those days are gone. We have seen in Minneapolis why the U.S. needs to have a Fourth Amendment, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.
Recent executive orders and presidential memorandums go beyond even the Patriot Act in facilitating nebulous and overreaching state surveillance.
President Trump’s recent federalization of troops and Presidential National Security Memorandum completely disregards the Constitution, says Judge Andrew Napolitano.
The first-term Trump F.B.I. put its contempt for the Constitution in writing and the Biden F.B.I. acted as if nothing was wrong, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Under the second Trump administration, nothing has changed.
The government knows how to evade an uncomfortable constitutional provision or High Court opinion, writes Andrew P. Napolitano regarding a case involving Donald Trump, Jack Smith and Elon Musk.
Andrew P. Napolitano on the Patriot Act’s destruction of the Fourth Amendment wall between law enforcement and spying.
Fog Reveal raises enormous privacy and civil liberties concerns, writes Anne Toomey McKenna. Yet it may be permissible because the U.S. lacks a comprehensive federal data privacy law.
People actually interested in ending Trumpism would be promoting an end to the corruption, opacity, a uniquely awful electoral system, and to neoliberal policies making Americans poorer and poorer, writes Caity Johnstone.
In America’s “war on terror,” normal actions, such as lawyer Lynne Stewart passing a client’s message to friends, became criminalized. Stewart was imprisoned, likely speeding her death from cancer, reports Dennis J Bernstein.
Some civil liberties groups praised the USA Freedom Act for its modest nips at the Surveillance State, but whistleblowers from inside the U.S. government were more skeptical about the law’s very slight accomplishments, writes Norman Solomon.