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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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