Civil Liberties
DOJ and DHS coerced tech firms to censor ICE-tracking platforms, says judge
A federal judge held Friday that the Justice Department (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) likely violated the First Amendment when they coerced Apple and Facebook to take down and ban platforms used to share…
Cops can force a pastor watering flowers to show ID, Alabama Supreme Court rules
A recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling has vastly expanded police power in the state, holding that law enforcement can demand physical identification under the state's stop-and-identify law when someone provides…
Trump promised change in Venezuela. Dissidents are still jailed.
Hours after American forces seized Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and flew him to New York to face narco-terrorism charges, President Donald Trump stepped before the cameras with a message for the Venezuelan people:…
Trump promised change in Venezuela. Dissidents are still jailed.
Hours after American forces seized Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and flew him to New York to face narco-terrorism charges, President Donald Trump stepped before the cameras with a message for the Venezuelan people:…
Federal judge delivers due process win against DOJ registry overreach
To protect the fundamental right to due process, a federal judge has permanently blocked the Justice Department (DOJ) from prosecuting Californians who fail to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act…
In ‘Poisoned Ivies’, Elise Stefanik sees censorship as a cure for ‘anti-Americanism’
Poisoned Ivies: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America's Elite Universities, by Elise Stefanik, Threshold Editions, 256 pages, $29. Elise Stefanik seems to be stepping away from politics, having…
When the U.S. censored a movie about the American Revolution
What if I told you that the U.S. government once imprisoned a filmmaker for making a movie about the American Revolution because it depicted British troops in an unflattering light? In today's edition of the Injustice…
House moves to extend warrantless FISA spy powers
House readies for a vote on warrantless spy powers. Last night, GOP leaders in the House cleared the way for a floor vote on an 18-month clean extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)…
The Supreme Court’s next big Fourth Amendment case
In Carpenter v. United States (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that warrantless government tracking of cellphone users via their cellphone location records violated the constitutional right to be free from unreasonable…
Pretti killing exposed Trump’s selective view of gun rights
After immigration agents fatally shot Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti on January 24, federal officials described him as a "domestic terrorist" and "would-be assassin" who "wanted to do maximum…
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