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Showing posts with label Fourth Amendment. Show all posts
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Local government revenue scheme runs roughshod over individual liberty.
Andrew Napolitano: Freedom For Me, But Not For Thee
The government is not us. Initially, I was gratified to learn that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was unafraid to take on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over the issue of domestic spying. The CIA is limited by its charter to stealing secrets from foreigners outside the U.S. However, ... MOREDamon Root: Supreme Court To Rule On Cell Phone Privacy
Will High Court say yes to warrantless searches? The Fourth Amendment protects our “persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” That includes the cell phones in our pockets, and the many private messages, photos, and videos those devices contain. But what happens if we get arrested for a ... MOREObamaCare Ruins More Than Health Care
by Richard E. Ralston. Law helps take down privacy and liberty. No government intrusion in our lives is more direct, personal and threatening than Obamacare’s intrusion in the care of our own health. But Obamacare will harm us on a broader scale, as the underlying nature of the health law’s provisions, and the tactics used to implement ... MOREHigh Court Expands Police Power For Warrantless Searches
Sadly, the Constitution cannot enforce itself. The Fourth Amendment generally requires the police to obtain a
warrant before searching a home, though that requirement may be
avoided if the homeowner consents to the search. But happens when
two (or more) people reside in the same home, and only one of them
consents ... MORERand Paul Announces Class-Action Suit Against NSA
from Fox News. Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday announced what he described as one of the largest class-action lawsuits in history, taking President Obama and top intelligence officials to court over National Security Agency surveillance. "This, we believe, will be a historic lawsuit," the Kentucky Republican said. The suit, joined by conservative ... MOREMore Evidence The Fourth Amendment Is Dead
Minor traffic violations cause for cell phone searches. A judge decided last week that Oklahoma City, Oklahoma police were in
the right when they downloaded information off the mobile phone
belonging to Noe Vergara Wuences who was pulled over on March 22, 2012
because the temporary paper license plate on his new car ... MOREAmie Stepanovich: Fourth Amendment Eroded
Our Constitution can't enforce itself. The Fourth Amendment protects Americans' right to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure. But government lawyers have argued repeatedly that this right should be limited, and the Supreme Court has often agreed. Amie Stepanovich, director of the domestic surveillance project at ... MORE
Federal Judge Acknowledges NSA is "Almost Orwellian"
by Andrew Napolitano. "Almost Orwellian"—that's the description a federal judge gave earlier this week to the massive spying by the National Security Agency (NSA) on virtually all 380 million cellphones in the United States. In the first meaningful and jurisdictionally grounded judicial review of the NSA cellphone spying program, U.S. District Court ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: The End Of Private Property
In the era of the American police state. If the government can tell you what you can and cannot do within the privacy of your home, whether it relates to what you eat, what you smoke or whom you love, you no longer have any rights whatsoever within your home. If government officials can fine and arrest you for growing ... MORETSA: Parking At Airport Grounds For Warrantless Search
Bureaucratic dictate trumps 4th Amendment. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has now expanded its intrusive searching protocol to include the interior of parked cars left at the airport. Reports of vehicle searches have been reported at multiple airports since this summer. Since roughly June, airports have ... MORERick Jenson: The Death Of Personal Freedom
Push to make warrantless searches the norm. Massachusetts Democrat Barry Greenfield is pushing for legislation to allow police to enter your home unannounced, without warrant, and take your guns. Greenfield actually believes it is a “problem” that police don’t have the authority to enter peoples’ homes and inspect their firearms ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Is The FISA Court Constitutional?
A court where only one party can make an argument. After President Richard Nixon left office in 1974, a bipartisan congressional investigation discovered many of his constitutional excesses. Foremost among them was the use of FBI and CIA agents to spy on Americans in violation of federal law and the Fourth Amendment to the ... MOREDestroying The Right To Be Left Alone
by Christopher Calabrese and Matthew Harwood. For at least the last six years, government agents have been exploiting an AT&T database
filled with the records of billions of American phone calls from as far
back as 1987. The rationale behind this dragnet intrusion, codenamed
Hemisphere, is to find suspicious links between people with ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Yes America, You Are Being Watched
The surveillance state is alive and well. During a visit to Richmond, Virginia on Monday, his third day as FBI director, Jim Comey welcomed the current debate over the reach of government surveillance. “The pendulum swings back and forth” between liberty and security, he said. America benefits when those with differing views on the ... MOREBrad Bannon: Building The American Police State
The Founders' worst nightmare has begun. These days the Constitution isn't worth the parchment it's written on. The Fourth Amendment is currently under siege in New York City and
in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal ran a story which
indicated that the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance
operation ... MORE
Tim Lee: Obama Asks For Warrantless Cellphone Searches
Requests permission to ignore the Fourth Amendment. If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through
your cellphone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week the
Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue and
rule that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cellphone searches. ... MORE
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