In April, the government’s surveillance powers under Section 702 of FISA will expire. Since 2015, Congress’s efforts to rein in the surveillance state have largely focused on the NSA’s “FISA 702 database”, and in particular on two things: (a) Closing the backdoor search loophole: Limiting, and requiring a warrant for, queries by other agencies of […]
Author: Alex Marthews
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Collective Suspicion Is Unreasonable
On September 8, the Supreme Court issued a disturbing shadow docket order in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, a case dealing with ICE stops in Los Angeles County. The question at issue is whether a federal agent may rely in part on a person’s race or ethnicity as part of a Fourth Amendment analysis of when […]