Chilling is as unconstitutional as silencing, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. And when the feds conscript private entities to do for them indirectly what the U.S. Constitution prohibits them from doing directly, that’s chilling.
In the videos of a jumped-up ICE agent murdering Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis we see the violence of the American empire coming home to preserve itself.
Whitney Webb on how mass surveillance and the military industrial complex are beginning to coalesce in unprecedented ways under the Trump administration.
The U.S. Constitution does not permit government agents to detain people because of how they look, the language they speak, or the jobs they hold, writes Raja Krishnamoorthi.
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls Mario Guevara — now in chaotic ICE captivity — the only journalist imprisoned in the U.S. in direct retaliation for his reporting.
Portland in 2020, Los Angeles today — Karen J. Greenberg covers the maximalist view of executive power emerging from Trump’s response to protests against ICE raids.
If America is to be what the Revolution envisioned on July 4, 1776, a nation governed by laws, then the American people must speak out and defend that vision, writes Dennis Kucinich.
The Marines are trained in combat, not crowd control, writes Marjorie Cohn. People are likely to get hurt.
Thomas Paine writes that a despotic government is a fungus that grows out of a corrupt civil society. This is what happened to past societies. It is what happened to us.
By contracting the surveillance firm to agglomerate the U.S. population’s personal data across government agencies, the White House has turbo-charged the company’s value, Kit Klarenberg reports.