Lawmakers Try To Insert Privacy Protections Into the Feds' Snooping Powers
The bipartisan Government Surveillance Reform Act would stop a lot of warrantless surveillance as a condition for renewal of Section 702 authorities.
The bipartisan Government Surveillance Reform Act would stop a lot of warrantless surveillance as a condition for renewal of Section 702 authorities.
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because she was angry about the Israel-Hamas war, Indianapolis police said."
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The government treats its endless appetite for information about citizens as more important than people's ability to conduct business in a normal fashion.
In an upcoming Supreme Court case, the Cato Institute argues that the "threadbare procedures" required by federal law provide inadequate protection for constitutional rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court keeps putting off deciding whether to take up a challenge to New York's rent control scheme.
Harvard concludes that it is, but I’m skeptical that this is right—just as I’d be skeptical that an employer’s restricting pro-Hamas speech constitutes such discrimination or harassment.
was a violation of free speech principles, Harvard concludes.
The plea agreement recommends that he receive probation.
A wave of ballot measures reminds us most Americans are moderate on abortion.
even though the First Amendment doesn't itself provide such protection.
Idaho's Attorney General Raúl Labrador so opines, including a rousing defense of academic freedom, including in scholarship and teaching.
The Supreme Court considers whether and when banishing irksome constituents violates the First Amendment.
The controversy is similar to part of the controversy in Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden), which also involves allegations of government coercion aimed at interfering with speech.
Instead of looking like a future president, Newsom comes off as just another small man in a big office.
Commercial speech enjoys First Amendment protections, whether politicians like it or not.
The law makes it a felony to possess a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, which covers the sidewalk in front of Gabriel Metcalf's house.
Hustler Magazine v Falwell comes to small town politics.
and a much more common rejection of plaintiff-side pseudonymity.
A new study shows the pervasiveness of helicopter parenting.
Q&A with the author of the book Elon Musk calls "an excellent explanation of why capitalism is not just successful, but morally right."
Criticism of the state’s "yellow flag" statute is doubly misguided.
Across the country, ghoulish cities have outlawed teenage trick-or-treaters.
Only one federal firearms prohibitor does not require any specific finding of fact
Without a prompt post-seizure hearing, people can lose their property for months or years even when they ultimately get it back.
According to legal documents, children have been forced to sleep on the floor of offices and gymnasiums, with limited access to bathrooms and showers.
Joshua Garton spent nearly two weeks in jail for "manufacturing and disseminating a harassing photograph on social media." A First Amendment lawsuit quickly followed.
Passes are parabolas, "you've got to be a sorry mofo to steal from the lowest of the low" was hyperbole.
The appeals court is reviewing an injunction by a judge who concluded that the law is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's Second Amendment precedents.
It's unlikely to stop would-be shooters, but it certainly would allow more innocent people to be locked up with little recourse.
School officials in three states are effectively immune from lawsuits over excessive corporal punishment. A Louisiana mother is asking the Supreme Court to step in.
Whether Florida may order universities to derecognize Students for Justice in Palestine chapters would likely turn on whether there's evidence on sufficient coordination between them and the national SJP, and the national SJP and Hamas.
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