The Politicization of the Department of Justice
by Harmeet K. Dhillon The following is adapted from a speech delivered on September 16, 2022, in Washington, D.C., at Hillsdale College’s Constitution Day Celebration. The seal of the U.S. Department ...
Read more.The Bill of Temporary Privileges
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano Last week, the Director of National Intelligence, the data-gathering and data-concealing arm of the American intelligence community masquerading as the head of it, revealed that in 2021, ...
Read more.Restoring the Fourth Amendment’s Oath or Affirmation Clause
The Fourth Amendment’s requirements for obtaining a warrant have been subverted in practice and in legal theory. That’s the argument made in “The Broken Fourth Amendment's Oath” paper written by ...
Read more.America’s Muzzled Freedom
by Scott Yenor - Law & Liberty There are no gulags in America. But that doesn’t mean there is no tyranny. Gulags are so sloppy and inefficient, anyway. America’s coming ...
Read more.Federal Courts: A Failed Strategy for Liberty
By: Mike Maharrey Counting on federal courts to impose liberty is a failed strategy. I recently appeared on the Scott Horton show to explain why. The Supreme Court recently chipped ...
Read more.Coronavirus is Just the Latest Excuse to Expand the Surveillance State
By: Mike Maharrey Federal, state and local agencies have teamed up to operate a warrantless cellphone tracking program to monitor compliance with COVID-19 social distancing requirements. According to a report ...
Read more.Another Case Shows the Supreme Court Doesn’t Protect Liberty
By: Mike Maharrey The Supreme Court handed down another opinion eroding the Fourth Amendment in a case that should have never gone to the federal court. Kansas v. Glover revolves around ...
Read more.Repeal the Patriot Act
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano I have been writing for years about the dangers to human freedom that come from government mass surveillance. The United States was born in a defiant ...
Read more.Applying the Fourth Amendment’s Original Meaning to Cell Phones and Heat Sensors
By: Michael Rappaport How should the Fourth Amendment’s original meaning be applied to modern technology that was not in existence at the time of the Amendment’s enactment? Many commentators believe ...
Read more.Originalism, the Fourth Amendment, and New Technology
By: Michael Rappaport One of the important issues for originalism is whether it can be applied to new circumstances that were not envisioned at the time of the original Constitution. ...
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