Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook
Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...
Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...
Linda Milazzo | Posted 09.02.2008 | Politics
Amy Goodman of Pacifica Network's Democracy Now! was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota, while trying to free two of her producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddo...
Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
Customs and Border Protection just released its new policies for searching and seizing laptops at the border.
Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
As it stands, Customs can grab anyone at the border, seize their laptop, and demand passwords and encryption keys as a pre-condition to entering the country. And who knows when you'll get your computer back?
Anthony D. Romero | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
The FISA bill goes further to extend the power of the executive to collect our communications than the president's original secret spying program. The Fourth Amendment was essentially eviscerated.
Norman Solomon | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
A reasonably evenhanded biography of Barack Obama, published last year, describes him as "an exceptionally gifted politician who, throughout his ...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Somehow Obama thought it was a good idea to go along with these surrender monkeys on the 4th amendment. But aside from the politics, it's a pathetic acquiescence to the wishes of Al Qaeda.
Joe Galloway | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
Early next week the U.S. Senate will vote on an extension of FISA. That such a gutting of the Fourth Amendment even made it out of committee is yet another stain on the gutless and seemingly powerless Democratic majority in Congress.
Jackson Williams | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
If we don't like the Second Amendment, then we should agitate to get rid of it in the methods the Founders prescribed. But we might want to think twice.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
If the Bush administration releases the fourth amendment that it is currently holding hostage, I'm happy to consider the Supreme Court decision on the second amendment final and decisive.
NewsTrust | Posted 06.07.2008 | Home
Together, we've broken several new records for NewsTrust -- thank you all! When we checked your stats the morning of June 6, the 'Off The Bus 10+ Reviews Club' had grown dramatically as well.
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
According to a new Department of Justice memo, it seems the Bush administration has justified its crimes by not suspending the state of emergency that went up on 9/11.
Roberto Lovato | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
Years of anti-immigration rhetoric has led Republicans to institutionalize the Latino equivalent of the "N" word.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics
It's about time that everyone in America realizes that if you allow a drug war exception to the Fourth Amendment, the Constitution is effectively moot.
Rep. Rush Holt | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics
We must not let anyone advance the bogus argument -- repeated by Joe Klein -- that protecting American's against unwarranted search and seizure necessarily requires a compromise in their security.
Rep. Rush Holt | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
When officials must establish before a court that they have reason to intercept communications, we get better intelligence than through indiscriminate collection and fishing expeditions.
Byron Williams | Posted 09.30.2007 | Politics
Will Congress, in an attempt to demonstrate strength, cowardly succumb to the president's desires by ignoring the Bill of Rights?
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Chris Weigant | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics