The hawkish defender of Guantanamo Bay and the post-9/11 security state worries President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown is threatening civil liberties.
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A DHS video lionizing Customs and Border Protection quotes the Bible and includes a song promising that "God's gonna cut you down."
The ruling tells an interesting story about how the very body that created a cause of action for victims of federal abuse has since worked to undermine that right.
Drug Smuggler. Fugitive. Icon. Meet The Acid Queen.
Officials at the border have the power to paw through sensitive data on your phone.
No matter how John O'Keefe died, the government failed here on multiple levels.
Although the appeals court said the president probably complied with the law he invoked to justify his California deployment, it emphasized that such decisions are subject to judicial review.
Flock Safety’s 40,000 cameras present in over 5,000 communities across the U.S. are being used to detain undocumented immigrants, many of whom have no criminal history.
But that's not what the law says.
The government's lawyer told a 9th Circuit panel the president's deployments are "unreviewable," so he need not even pretend to comply with the statute on which he is relying.
It’s time for the rest of the state to stop illegal searches and seizures that enrich police departments.
On its face, the law gives the president sweeping authority to deploy the military in response to domestic disorder.
In the shadow of immigration crackdowns and federal troops on the ground, shopkeepers and customers are scared away, leaving businesses devastated.
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"I think it just puts a lot of fear in people—especially the hard-working people who are doing nothing wrong."
When cops don't look like cops, they run a greater risk their target will fight back.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer concluded that the president failed to comply with the statute he cited—and violated the 10th Amendment too.
Agents detonated a grenade and broke into the house, guns drawn. But while the decision is good news for Curtrina Martin and Toi Cliatt, their legal battle is far from over.
“You could end up with a ticket or a trip to the emergency room.”
With the OneTaste case, the Department of Justice has embraced infantilizing ideas about women, consent, and coercion.
Law enforcement seized Robert Reeves' Chevrolet Camaro without charging him with a crime. After he filed a class-action lawsuit, that changed.
The Department of Justice brought the deported Salvadoran back to U.S. soil for trial, reversing its long-held contention that he would "never" return.
The White House may be setting us up for a new wave of police abuses—and necessary calls for reform.
Sen. Blackburn introduced a bill this week that would make it a crime to publish the name of a federal law enforcement officer.
Vicki Baker's legal odyssey is finally coming to an end.
Former Rusk County deputy Shane Iverson can now be sued for the 2022 fatal shooting of Timothy Michael Randall, who was fleeing a traffic stop.
It's a reversal from his first term, when Trump himself ordered the creation of a database tracking excessive use of force.
Swedish authorities voted to criminalize the purchase or procurement of online sex acts, in a move targeting customers of webcam platforms and sites like OnlyFans.
In Operation Fool Around and Find Out, 244 "human trafficking" arrests, but no human trafficking.
The legal principle safeguards civil liberties, protecting even unpopular people from the government.
But the ruling suggests prostitution clients could be convicted of sex trafficking in other circumstances.
A lot of conservatives are falling prey to the same snowflakery they criticize.
The Big Sky State becomes the first to close the "data broker loophole" allowing the government to get private information without a warrant.
The government has been putting sexuality, sexual labor, and unorthodox ideas about sex on trial.
Nominees include stories on inflation breaking brains, America's first drug war, Afghans the U.S. left behind, Javier Milei, and much more.
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The Department of Justice told the Supreme Court there were "policy tradeoffs that an officer makes" in determining if he should "take one more extra precaution" to make sure he's at the right house.
Democrats did the right thing, got attacked for it, then caved.
As partisan violence rises, emergency services are weaponized against mostly conservative targets.
ICE deported Andry Hernandez Romero because his "mom" and "dad" tattoos were allegedly related to a Venezuelan gang.
The Wisconsin judge is charged with obstruction of justice and concealing an undocumented alien to prevent his arrest.
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Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi thought he was going to become an American. Instead, ICE whisked him away into detention.
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