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Biden Knows Section 702 Is Unconstitutional, yet His Administration Still Defends It Jul. 10, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Fifteen years ago this week, then-Sen. Joe Biden voted no on the FISA Amendments Act, whic... Read More
Police Should Not Be Allowed To Compel Our Cellphone Passwords Jun. 26, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Our cellphones and other digital devices play a central role in our private lives, storing an unprec... Read More
No Warrant, No Problem Jun. 22, 2023
In 1928, the late Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis characterized the values underlying the Fo... Read More
Donated Blood or an Organ? Police Shouldn't Have Easy Access to Your DNA Jun. 19, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
In 2015, following a DUI arrest, Ian Mitcham consented to having a blood sample collected to test fo... Read More
FISA and Freedom May. 25, 2023
"We may even cheer on those who ask us to ... forfeit our personal freedoms. Of course, this is no n... Read More
The Feds and Their Copycats May. 18, 2023
The federal government recently revealed that at least 50 U.S. government personnel working in 10 fo... Read More
Does Government Believe in the Constitution? May. 04, 2023
Last week, FBI officials boasted that in 2022 their agents had spied on only 120,000 Americans witho... Read More
Louisville Police Abuses Show Civil Liberties Are Meaningless Without Accountability: Supervisors and Judges Tolerated Outrageous Constitutional Violations, Including Illegal Searches and Brutal Assaults Mar. 15, 2023
The form that Louisville, Kentucky, police officers use when they seek search warrants includes a li... Read More
Spying In Plain Sight Mar. 09, 2023
Last week, the Biden administration asked Congress to permit its agents to continue to spy on Americ... Read More
How Local Cops Get Your Bank Records Jan. 26, 2023
This column has recently outlined the specious arguments offered by the feds when they have been cau... Read More
A Government That Assaults Liberty Jan. 05, 2023
During the course of an FBI written response to a Freedom of Information Act request asking about th... Read More
The Bill of Temporary Privileges May. 05, 2022
Last week, the Director of National Intelligence, the data-gathering and data-concealing arm of the ... Read More
Using War to Assault Freedom Apr. 21, 2022
Most judges and lawyers agree that the war on drugs in the past 50 years has seriously diminished th... Read More
A Life Spent Making Constitutional Rights More Than Quaint Ideals Feb. 11, 2022
Many people, looking back on their lives, wonder if anything they've done made any difference in the... Read More
A Bias for Liberty Feb. 03, 2022
Three weeks ago, this column reported on warnings issued by the Biden administration about the dange... Read More
The Government's Community Caretaking Ruse May. 27, 2021
Edward and Kim Caniglia had an argument in their Cranston, Rhode Island, home, during which Edward r... Read More
When Can Government Kick Open the Door of Your House? Apr. 21, 2021
A 69-year-old woman was walking her poodle in a public park in Northern California in late November.... Read More
When Can Government Kick Open the Door of Your House? Apr. 21, 2021
A 69-year-old woman was walking her poodle in a public park in Northern California in late November.... Read More
A Landmark Decision Marks Its 60th Anniversary Mar. 05, 2021
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Mapp v. Ohio. In... Read More
How to Beat Legalized Larceny: Government Bullies Empowered by Civil Forfeiture Laws Often Back Down, but Only When Their Victims Can Afford a Fight Nov. 25, 2020
Six months after the Drug Enforcement Administration stole $43,000 from Stacy Jones at a North Carol... Read More
