Sunrise, Sunset

Jesse Walker | 4.9.2003 2:14 AM

Some central features of the USA Patriot Act included sunset provisions: If Congress doesn't revisit and reauthorize them at the end of 2005, they'll no longer be law. Now D.C. Republicans, led by Orrin Hatch, are trying to repeal the expiration clauses.

[Via Is That Legal?]

Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.