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Judge Gorsuch: Friend to the Fourth?

By Alex Marthews and Taylor Campbell It’s expected that the Judiciary Committee will vote April 3 on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court. He comes to the nomination with stellar formal qualifications, which is a nice change from, say, 90% of President Trump’s cabinet nominees (hello there, Betsy DeVos!). Inevitably and appropriately, Democrats […]

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TrumpTaps, Section 702, and Russell Tice: Three Levels of Talking About Political Surveillance

By Alex Marthews, National Chair In every country that has adopted mass surveillance, it has been abused for domestic political ends. It was so in (of course) the Soviet Union. It was so in East Germany. It was true in the US under Hoover and Nixon. Yet amid all of the scorn and hullabaloo about […]