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Op-Ed: Supreme Court Rulings in Hernandez v. Mesa and Ziglar v. Abbasi

Post author By Alex Marthews
Post date July 3, 2017
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Rulings in Ziglar and Hernandez: The Supreme Court, the Fourth Amendment and the `Special Factor’ of `National Security’ In Hernandez v. Mesa and Ziglar v. Abbasi, two just-decided cases, the Supreme Court has now made it such that individuals wishing to obtain damages from agents of the federal government for violation of their Fourth Amendment […]

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Four Reasons to Fear Illegal Mass Surveillance, Even If You “Have Nothing to Hide”

Post author By Alex Marthews
Post date January 25, 2016
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Two and a half years after Edward Snowden provided definitive proof that the US government and its allies are illegally spying on their own populations en masse, and a week before the first presidential primary in Iowa, it is troubling to me that the issue hasn’t received more lasting concern and attention, both from the […]