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New “USA Liberty Act” Doesn’t Fix Problem of Mass Surveillance on Americans

October 5, 2017 – USA Liberty Act Allows FBI’s End-Run Around The Constitution To Continue On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee will be filing the so-called “USA Liberty Act”, an attempt to deal with the fact that the main statutory authority for the government’s mass surveillance programs is due to expire December 31. The product […]

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

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 […]