Free Republic 1st Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $74,893
92%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 92%!! Thank you everyone!! God bless.

Keyword: 4thamendment

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Stop Your Car From Spying on You

    03/26/2024 7:19:38 AM PDT · by Twotone · 27 replies
    Reason ^ | March 25, 2024 | J.D. Tuccille
    Being proved right isn't always fun. Just weeks after my warning in the March issue that our modern high-tech cars are tracking us and sharing data with manufacturers, cops, and parties unknown, came a report of soaring auto insurance premiums because of snitching vehicles. The consequences get worse from there. Fortunately, there are ways to keep your snoopy ride from contacting the mothership. Your Driving History May Be Transmitted and Stored "Car companies are collecting information directly from internet-connected vehicles for use by the insurance industry," Kashmir Hill reported this month for The New York Times. "Sometimes this is happening...
  • Developing: New York AG Letitia James Could Start Seizing President’s Property on Monday

    03/19/2024 3:02:18 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 273 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | March 19, 2024 | Jim Hoft
    AG Letitia James has warned she will start confiscating his wealth and property and selling it off. AG Letitia James told ABC. “If he does not have funds to pay off the judgement, then we will seek judgement enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets,” James told ABC, according to the Daily Express and other outlets. “We are prepared to make sure that the judgment is paid to New Yorkers,” James said, “and yes, I look at 40 Wall Street each and every day,” she added, referring to a Trump-owned property near her...
  • Alaska Court Rules Police Must Obtain Warrant to Surveil Houses Using Zoom Lenses, Aircraft

    03/10/2024 3:24:28 AM PDT · by CFW · 19 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | 3/9/24 | Aldgra Fredly
    The Alaska Supreme Court ruled on Friday that law enforcement officers in Alaska are not permitted to conduct aerial surveillance of a person’s yard using a zoom lens without first obtaining a warrant. In its ruling, the court said that it disagrees with the state’s claim that such surveillance was constitutional “because small airplane travel is so common in Alaska, and because any passenger might peer into your yard and snap a picture of you, law enforcement officials may do the same.” “The Alaska Constitution protects the right to be free of unreasonable searches,” the court stated in a 34-page...
  • Alabama couple awarded $1 million for unconstitutional police raid they say left them homeless

    02/12/2024 12:01:14 PM PST · by TexasKamaAina · 37 replies
    AL.com ^ | 02/11/2024 | Heather Gann
    Randolph County couple Greg and Teresa Almond were recently awarded $1 million in punitive and compensatory damages after a federal jury determined that deputies illegally raided their home six years ago. On Jan. 31, 2018, Randolph County Deputy Sheriff Nathaniel Morrow arrived at the Almond home around 2 p.m. and told Teresa that he was there to serve paperwork related to ‘a civil matter,’ according to documents from a federal civil rights lawsuit the couple filed in 2019. Teresa told Morrow that Greg wasn’t home but said that he could return in two hours to give him the paperwork then....
  • FBI Overstepped in Search of Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes, Court Rules

    01/25/2024 7:59:51 AM PST · by Heartlander · 33 replies
    The Intercept ^ | January 24 2024 | Shawn Musgrave
    FBI Overstepped in Search of Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes, Court RulesThe 9th Circuit compared the searches to the “abuses of power” that “led to adoption of the Fourth Amendment in the first place.”The FBI overstepped its constitutional authority when agents searched hundreds of safe deposit boxes without warrants in 2021, a federal appeals court ruled. The court compared the FBI’s tactics to the kind of indiscriminate searches that led to the enactment of the Bill of Rights in the first place.In March 2021, the FBI raided U.S. Private Vaults, a safe deposit box company in Beverly Hills, California. The...
  • A geofence warrant typo cast a location dragnet spanning two miles over San Francisco

    01/11/2024 2:36:48 PM PST · by CFW · 9 replies
    Tech Crunch ^ | 1/10/24 | Zack Whittaker
    Civil liberties advocates have long argued that “geofence” search warrants are unconstitutional for their ability to ensnare entirely innocent people who were nearby at the time a crime was committed. But errors in the geofence warrant applications that go before a judge can violate the privacy of vastly more people — in one case almost two miles away. Attorneys at the ACLU of Northern California found what they called an “alarming error” in a geofence warrant application that “resulted in a warrant stretching nearly two miles across San Francisco.” The error, likely caused by a typo, allowed the requesting law...
  • Maine secretary of state rules Trump ineligible for state's 2024 primary ballot.

    12/28/2023 4:07:07 PM PST · by janetjanet998 · 104 replies
    Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has decided Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot.
  • Police investigating incidents involving Colorado justices after Trump removed from state’s ballot

    12/26/2023 6:36:28 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 13 replies
    Associated Press ^ | December 26, 2023 | Colleen Slevin
    Police said Tuesday they are investigating incidents directed at Colorado Supreme Court justices and providing extra patrols around their homes in Denver following the court’s decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot. The Denver Police Department declined in an email to provide details about its investigations, citing safety and privacy considerations and because they are ongoing. The department “is currently investigating incidents directed at Colorado Supreme Court justices and will continue working with our local, state and federal law enforcement partners to thoroughly investigate any reports of threats or harassment,” the email said. Officers...
  • Did Google Just Defeat Every Geofence Warrant?

    12/14/2023 4:58:34 PM PST · by george76 · 16 replies
    Reason Foundation ^ | 12.13.2023 | ORIN S. KERR
    Code is law, they say. ... Geofence warrants are warrants to obtain the location data that Google users let Google collect if they opt in to Google's location history service, which about a third of Google users do. Geofence warrants have been possible because, if you opt in, Google keeps a copy of the location history. And records are kept can be compelled, at least if the legal process is valid. All of which makes this Google announcement from yesterday of great interest. Google will no longer keep location history even for the users who opted in to have it...
  • Jury to decide how much Rudy Giuliani must pay election workers he defamed

    12/11/2023 8:31:44 PM PST · by bitt · 28 replies
    nbcnews.com ^ | 12/11/2023 | ryan j. reilly
    WASHINGTON — Opening statements began Monday in a trial to determine how much Rudy Giuliani will have to pay two former Georgia election workers after he was found liable for defaming them with baseless claims that they committed fraud in the 2020 election. Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, sued Giuliani over the bogus claims, which they say upended their lives. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and former federal prosecutor, was found to have defamed the two women, including by falsely claiming they were handing around what he alleged were USB drives "like they were vials...
  • Conservatives Call Foul on Move to Extend Deep State Surveillance Authorization in Defense Bill

    11/29/2023 9:21:05 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 16 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 29 Nov 2023 | Sean Moran
    House and Senate conservatives on Wednesday sounded the alarm on a potential move by congressional leadership to extend a deep state surveillance law in a defense bill. “Reauthorization of FISA can’t be hooked to anything. The federal GOV has spied on Americans [who] decided to go to Church or you went to a school board meeting. This needs to end. Reauthorization needs to stand on its own, and have significant reform,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry (R-PA) said during a press conference with the House Freedom Caucus and Senate conservatives. The conservatives held their press conference as congressional leaders...
  • Oklahoma State Rep Demands Investigation Into ATF Swat Raid on Constituent’s Home

    09/06/2023 6:57:40 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 45 replies
    The Truth About Guns ^ | 5 Sep, 2023 | Lee Williams
    Oklahoma state Rep. Justin Humphrey (R-Lane) sent a letter to the Oklahoma Attorney General, the Sheriff of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt and “All Oklahoma judicial authorities and other law enforcement entities,” requesting an investigation into ATF’s SWAT team raid at the home of his constituent, Russell Fincher. According to a press release, Humphrey said he was contacted by Fincher after a dozen ATF SWAT team members bearing “automatic weapons” raided Fincher’s home, handcuffed him on his porch in front of his 13-year-old son and coerced him into relinquishing his Federal Firearm License. “If this report is true, and...
  • Jim Jordan letter to Garland - J6 use of geofencing

    08/17/2023 4:52:27 PM PDT · by Moe-Patrick · 21 replies
    Robert Gouveia ^ | 08/17/2023 | Jim Jordan
    7 min video - showing and explaining Jim Jordan’s letter to Garland. Letter requests data concerning use of geofencing Jan 6 and why the FBI refused to use geofencing in any other riot 2020 even though it had been requested in many cities. Geofencing is a fence that collects data from every phone in the area and sends it to google for processing. Jordan is requesting data on who did what concerning the use and denial of geofencing. Robert Gouveia is a lawyer with a podcast. He shows and explains the letter in this video.He covers many of the lawsuits/indictments...
  • Special Counsel has Trump’s Twitter Direct Messages, Including Deleted and Unsent Drafts...Ridiculous.

    08/16/2023 9:06:25 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 41 replies
    Legal Insurrection ^ | Wednesday, August 16, 2023 at 09:00am | Mary Chastain
    The latest unsealed court filings shows that special counsel Jack Smith has all of President Donald Trump’s direct messages, including the deleted and unsent ones. We learned last week that the feds served Twitter with a warrant for Trump’s account. The company resisted. The court then fined the platform $350,000 and held it in contempt. The judge suspected Twitter wanted to delay the handover because CEO Elon Musk wanted “to cozy up” to Trump. I rolled my eyes. The government demanded everything. It seemed that no one in the room knew anything about the old fleets. Remember those? Twitter tried...
  • Fulton DA says she’s not coordinating with Special Counsel Jack Smith, warns of safety risks as indictments loom

    08/15/2023 9:05:11 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 41 replies
    WABE ^ | July 31, 2023 | Sam Gringlas
    Sometime in the next three weeks, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to ask a grand jury to indict multiple people for trying to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election result. July 31 is the first of 10 days between now and August 18 that Willis has instructed most of her staff to work remotely, citing safety precautions.That window comes as U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith is preparing to bring criminal charges stemming from his federal investigation into the Jan, 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Willis says the two investigations have not coordinated.“I don’t know...
  • Georgia court website publishes, then takes down, list of criminal charges against Trump

    08/14/2023 12:06:48 PM PDT · by devane617 · 26 replies
    APNews ^ | 08/14/2023
    ATLANTA (AP) — A list of criminal charges in Georgia against former President Donald Trump briefly appeared Monday on a Fulton County website, but prosecutors said Trump had not been indicted in a long-running investigation of the 2020 presidential election. A Fulton County grand jury began hearing from witnesses Monday. Shortly after 12 p.m., Reuters reported on a list of several criminal charges to be brought against Trump, including state racketeering counts, conspiracy to commit false statements, and solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer. Reuters, which later published a copy of the document, said the filing was...
  • BREAKING: Georgia DA expected to charge Trump under Anti-Mafia RICO law

    08/07/2023 2:02:02 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 137 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | August 7, 2023 | Hannah Nightingale
    grand jury is set to consider whether to indict 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump in connection with alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. If indicted, this would be his fourth this year. Lawyers who have followed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ investigation, including some who have worked with her in the past, expect her to invoke Georgia’s RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act, which is modeled after the federal act of the same name, according to the Wall Street Journal. “Signs are certainly pointing in that direction,” said law professor at Georgia...
  • Trump could have mugshot taken if indicted in Georgia: ‘We’ll be ready’

    08/02/2023 12:52:41 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 23 replies
    NY Post ^ | 08/02/2023 | Ryan King
    This is not the presidential portrait he wanted. A sheriff in Georgia said former President Donald Trump will likely have his mug shot taken if he is hit with a fourth indictment in that state. Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat anticipates authorities will adhere to “normal practices” if Trump receives an indictment for attempting to challenge the 2020 election results in the Peach State. “Unless somebody tells me differently, we are following our normal practices, and so it doesn’t matter your status,” Labat told reporters during a press conference Tuesday. “We’ll have a mug shot ready for you.”
  • Has Liberty Died in Our Hearts?

    07/31/2023 5:25:44 PM PDT · by Twotone · 22 replies
    Creators.com ^ | July 27, 2023 | Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
    "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it." — Judge Learned Hand (1872-1961) Late last week, a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court revealed that he had had enough of the FBI and Congress trashing the Constitution. The normally secretive court and the normally secretive judge explained in a rare public opinion the unlawful behavior of FBI agents spying on ordinary Americans in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The FISA Court judge...
  • Kansas Cops Have 'Waged War on Motorists' by Subjecting Them to Pretextual Traffic Stops, a Federal Judge Says: Ruling draws back the veil on routine police practices that victimize innocent drivers.

    07/28/2023 9:01:14 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 52 replies
    Reason ^ | 07/28/2023 | Jacob Sullum
    A cop pulls you over for a minor traffic violation. After giving you a warning or a ticket, he says, "Drive safe!" and starts walking away. But he immediately turns around and walks toward your car again, saying, "Hey, can I ask you something?"That maneuver, known as the "Kansas Two-Step," is aimed at evading the Fourth Amendment's constraints on searches and seizures. Police are not supposed to continue detaining you after the ostensible purpose of the stop has been accomplished unless they reasonably suspect you are involved in criminal activity. The two-step is designed to extend the encounter by making...