Former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s (DNI) office says it is working to declassify a FISA Court opinion that could reveal how the government is skirting reforms around how the government searches the communications of Americans.
Freedom Caucus lawmakers cheered the House Appropriations Committee advancing an amendment to a major funding bill that would protect Americans’ privacy against data brokers.
Congress punted the fight to reauthorize a key spy powers fight for more six weeks as privacy advocates see another opportunity to reform the controversial surveillance law.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and other proponents for a clean reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) have argued that a warrant requirement for searches of Americans’ communications is “unworkable.” One civil liberties expert says otherwise.
A bipartisan bill that would protect Americans’ civil liberties by restricting law enforcement’s ability to secretly seize individuals’ private data and phone records is gaining momentum in Congress.
House Republican leaders will move a planned vote on a controversial surveillance plan to April after many conservatives balked at the idea of extending the surveillance authority without more reform, according to a report.
MN state Sen. Matt Klein (D) put forward legislation that would allow police to enter homes to check compliance with semi-auto gun storage.
The proposed ban on AR-15 and numerous other semiautomatic rifles and pistols failed to pass in a Minnesota House Committee Tuesday afternoon.
President Donald Trump’s officers are operating within federal law when they arrest fugitive “Final Order” migrants in their homes without first getting a judge’s signature, a former top DOJ official told Breitbart News.
DHS is debunking claims it is violating the constitution by arresting foreigners in their homes when they have a “Final Order” of deportation.
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed suit Wednesday over what they claim was an “unconstitutional search” of a legal gun owner who is also a high school student.
Quang Nguyen (R) used an X post to warn that an American citizenry devoid of guns would soon be a citizenry without freedom of speech and property rights too.
As San Francisco DA, Kamala Harris stressed that being a legal gun owner does not bar police from searching your home “to see if you’re being responsible.”
House Republicans urged the Biden-Harris administration to end the “warrantless exploitation” of “data broker surveillance.”
The House seeks to reauthorize a controversial spy program when Congress returns from recess next week.
Rep. Bob Good called for the removal of Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner over his efforts to scuttle surveillance reform.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced on Wednesday that the House will no longer consider a government surveillance bill after the House Intelligence Committee was “smoked” by pro-reform lawmakers.
Thirty House Republicans sent a letter Tuesday to GOP leadership, urging them to protect Americans’ second and fourth amendment rights.
Republicans and Democrats overwhemingly voted on Wednesday to advance a bill that seeks to rein in deep state surveillance programs.
Fifty-four House lawmakers, Democrat and Republican, conservative and progressive, called on Speaker Mike Johnson not to extend a controversial deep state surveillance law in a defense bill.
Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) office has refused to confirm Rep. Matt Gaetz’s claim that there will be no reauthorization, temporary or otherwise, of a deep state surveillance tool.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), the chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, wrote that the White House National Drug Control Policy’s secret funding of a surveillance program proves that surveillance reform must go far beyond Section 702 of FISA.
Kash Patel filed a lawsuit on Monday against FBI Director Christopher Wray, former Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, and others for violating his Fourth Amendment right to protection from unreasonable searches and seizures.
The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday advanced legislation that would bar the federal government from circumventing the Fourth Amendment by purchasing Americans’ private data without a warrant.
The House-passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes Rep. Warren Davidson’s (R-OH) amendment that would bar the Pentagon from purchasing Americans’ private data, which is considered a run around Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless searches.
Reps. Warren Davidson (R-OH) and Sara Jacobs (D-CA) introduced an amendment that would bar the federal government from buying Americans’ private information, which privacy advocates say is a run around the Fourth Amendment.
The prosecution of a former CIA agent accused of sexually abusing multiple women could collapse due to questions over evidence obtainment.
A federal judge recently ruled that scanning a student’s room before a virtual test is unconstitutional as it violates the fourth amendment.
The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, had “no legal basis,” according to a Wall Street Journal op-ed by former White House and Department of Justice lawyers David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey.
Former President Donald Trump filed a motion requesting an independent review of the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago during an FBI raid on his home earlier this month.
Former President Donald Trump announced he would “soon” file a Fourth Amendment unlawful search and seizure motion over the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago in a post made on TRUTH Social on Friday.
The Biden administration has brought a “nightmare” upon America as it “dragged us into the Dark Ages” and “raped half the nation,” according to conservative radio legend Michael Savage.
In the opinion for the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Caniglia v. Strom Associate Justice Samuel Alito noted red flag provisions “may be challenged under the Fourth Amendment.”
In a case alleging that police seized a man’s firearms while he was at hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, the U.S. Supreme Court held in a unanimous 9-0 decision that entering the house without a search warrant violates the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
Alan Dershowitz said he was “disappointed” in Merrick Garland’s approval of a search warrant for the FBI to raid Rudy Giuliani’s apartment.
In an interview with Steve Malzberg on his weekly Sunday commentary show Eat the Press, progressive feminist author and former Democrat adviser Dr. Naomi Wolf expressed alarm regarding President Joe Biden’s current state of health and its implications for U.S. national security.
Wednesday during an appearance on FBN’s “Kennedy,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) vowed to champion a fight against data brokers, who collect data on individuals through the use of apps on their smartphones and sell it.
In pursuing a partisan case for impeachment, Democrats have also violated several cherished amendments in the Bill of Rights.
“That the FBI and the intelligence community and the Department of Justice began an investigation against four American citizens simply because they worked for the opposition political candidate, that being Donald Trump.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called the border wall proposal hammered out by congressional negotiators a “big victory” for President Trump.
