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The Coming Police State Jun. 26, 2025
We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government w... Read More
Wisconsin Judge Arrested by Administration Seems To Have Law on Her Side May. 01, 2025
SAN DIEGO — I've been wrestling with the story of the Wisconsin judge who went quickly from "y... Read More
Searching for Monsters Aug. 29, 2024
"America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy ... She might become the dictatress of the... Read More
Holes In the Constitution Jul. 11, 2024
In his famous dissent in Olmstead v. United States, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in 1928 cal... Read More
New Point-and-Shoot Chemical Detectors Raise Privacy and Constitutional Issues Dec. 11, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
The TSA has begun testing a new handheld device that purports to be able to quickly identify the sub... Read More
The Government Can't Retain Seized Digital Devices and Data Indefinitely Without Justification Oct. 30, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
For how long may the government hold on to the digital devices in its possession and the reams of pr... Read More
A Constitution the Government Evades Oct. 05, 2023
Six months ago, FBI officials boasted that in 2022 their agents had spied on only 120,000 Americans ... Read More
Biden Knows Section 702 Is Unconstitutional, yet His Administration Still Defends It Jul. 10, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Fifteen years ago this week, then-Sen. Joe Biden voted no on the FISA Amendments Act, whic... Read More
No Warrant, No Problem Jun. 22, 2023
In 1928, the late Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis characterized the values underlying the Fo... Read More
Congress Considers Conditions on the Government's License to Steal: The FAIR Act Includes Several Substantial Reforms That Would Make It Harder to Take Property From Innocent Owners Through Civil Forfeiture Jun. 15, 2023
Two years ago, the FBI seized the contents of safe deposit boxes used by hundreds of people at U.S. ... Read More
Congress Considers Conditions on the Government's License to Steal: The FAIR Act Includes Several Substantial Reforms That Would Make It Harder to Take Property From Innocent Owners Through Civil Forfeiture Jun. 14, 2023
Two years ago, the FBI seized the contents of safe deposit boxes used by hundreds of people at U.S. ... Read More
Trump and the Department of Justice Aug. 18, 2022
Former President Donald Trump will soon be indicted by a federal grand jury. He is the victim of a f... Read More
Judicial Rubber-Stamping of Warrants Can Be Deadly: Lethal Drug Raids in Louisville and Houston Were Based on Fishy Police Affidavits That Turned Out to Be Fraudulent Aug. 10, 2022
According to a federal indictment unsealed last week, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT and aspiring... Read More
The Costs of Monitoring Your Prescriptions: State Databases That Track Our Medications Invade Privacy Without Reducing Opioid-Related Deaths Jun. 12, 2019
Prescription drug monitoring programs do not seem to be very effective at preventing abuse of opioid... Read More
There's So Much Smoke. Why Worry About a Fire? Feb. 09, 2018
What are we to make of the GOP and Democrats' dueling scandal wars? So much information, so little t... Read More
The Republican Memo Doesn't Spotlight the Real Scandal Feb. 02, 2018
If the president hoped that the memo by Republican staff on the House Intelligence Committee would e... Read More
Our View: Emails Warrant Legal Cause Feb. 14, 2017
The government needs a warrant to rummage through your personal papers, so why doesn't the same requ... Read More
Congress Can't Count on the Other Branches to Protect Digital Privacy Rights Feb. 02, 2017
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently shot down the latest effort by the Justice Department... Read More
A Parting Shot at Personal Freedom Jan. 19, 2017
On Jan. 3, outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch secretly signed an order directing the National S... Read More
Digital Privacy Shouldn't Depend on a Law Written in the Time of 'Stranger Things' Sep. 08, 2016
One of the most powerful arguments for limiting the size and scope of government is the inability of... Read More
