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  • The Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects a 'Very Narrow Approach' to Deadly Force by Police

    05/21/2025 11:40:10 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 38 replies
    Reason ^ | Jacob Sullum
    The decision revives a lawsuit against a Texas officer who shot a driver after endangering himself by jumping onto a moving car. ============================================================= During a routine traffic stop near Houston in 2016, a police officer killed Ashtian Barnes by blindly firing two shots into his car after jumping onto the doorsill as Barnes began to drive away. Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that the shooting was justified by the threat that the officer, Harris County Constable Roberto Felix Jr., faced when he shot Barnes. Last Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected the...
  • Massive Legal Victory: Judge Rules FISA Backdoor Surveillance Unconstitutional

    01/23/2025 4:15:22 PM PST · by george76 · 17 replies
    Becker Brief ^ | Jan 23, 2025 | Kyle Becker
    This is a major constitutional ruling on one of the most abused provisions of FISA." FISA Backdoor Surveillance Unconstitutional The recent ruling in United States v. Hasbajrami has sent shockwaves through the legal and intelligence communities, marking a decisive moment in the fight against warrantless surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall’s decision that backdoor searches of FISA Section 702 databases violate the Fourth Amendment represents a significant milestone for privacy advocates and civil rights defenders. This ruling has profound implications for government surveillance practices, reaffirming constitutional protections in the digital age.
  • Bryan Kohberger’s lawyers ask for nearly all evidence to be tossed in Idaho student murders case

    01/23/2025 9:38:59 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 22 replies
    NY Post ^ | 01/23/2025 | Fox News
    Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger is expected to return to a courtroom this week ahead of his summer murder trial for the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in November 2022. A hearing Thursday will consider 12 suppression motions filed by Kohberger’s defense. It will be the first time Kohberger has been back in court in over two months, when his defense team asked a Boise judge to “sanction” prosecutors over “inadequate disclosures” through the discovery process. His defense team is requesting expert witnesses be excluded from the case as a solution. His team is attempting to have...
  • Yet Another Unbelievably Stupid Law To Harass The People

    11/25/2024 6:29:48 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 16 replies
    Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 24 Nov, 2024 | Francis Menton
    Just when you think that things might be about to turn around with regard to the explosion of unbelievably stupid laws and regulations to harass and annoy the people, along comes another one that’s stupid enough to top them all. This one has sprung up seemingly out of nowhere in the past few weeks, in notices that have gone out among the New York co-op and condo communities. But the law’s application is far broader than just these communities. I suspect that many readers have received such notices in many diverse contexts. The law in question is a federal statute...
  • First, Second, Fourth Amendments Endangered by Kamala Harris

    11/05/2024 9:36:02 AM PST · by JohnRLott · 19 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | November 2, 2024 | John R Lott Jr
    Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats claim they are the party of freedom. In Harris’ interview on Club Shay Shay on Monday, she argued that people need to vote for her to preserve the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments, that Trump “wants to terminate the Constitution.” Yet, on the First Amendment, Harris previously called for government “oversight or regulation” of social media to stop what she calls misinformation. In 2022, her vice-presidential nominee, Gov. Tim Walz, claimed: “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.” On gun ownership, Harris went so far as claiming: “I am in...
  • NFL to roll out facial authentication software league-wide

    08/04/2024 12:29:31 PM PDT · by Salman · 44 replies
    The Record ^ | August 1st, 2024 | Suzanne Smalley
    The National Football League is the latest organization to turn to facial authentication to bolster event security, according to an announcement this week. All 32 NFL stadiums will start using the technology this season, after the league signed a contract with a company that uses facial scans to verify the identity of people entering event venues and other secure spaces. The facial authentication platform, which counts the Cleveland Browns’ owners as investors, will be used to “streamline and secure” entry for thousands of credentialed media, officials, staff and guests so they can easily access restricted areas such as press boxes...
  • FBI Wanted to Install Backdoor to Spy on Users, Telegram Founder Tells Tucker Carlson

    04/17/2024 9:56:26 AM PDT · by marshmallow · 13 replies
    Sputnik News ^ | 4/17/24
    The former Fox News anchor and conservative media personality divulged that he had set up an official Telegram channel for his Tucker Carlson Network, encouraging the public to “keep an eye on the announcements there.” The channel has already attracted more than 150, 000 subscribers.Speaking with Tucker Carlson, Russian-born IT entrepreneur and co-founder of the Telegram social network Pavel Durov focused on a variety of topics, including his visit to the United States. The 39-year-old revealed that he was closely watched and monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during his time in the country. “We got too much...
  • Study Estimates Nearly 96% of Private Property Is Open to Warrantless Searches

    03/16/2024 6:13:21 AM PDT · by Twotone · 25 replies
    Reason ^ | March 14, 2024 | C.J. Ciaramella
    The Institute for Justice says its data show that a century-old Supreme Court doctrine created a huge exception to the Fourth Amendment. Police can traipse onto the vast majority of private property in the country without a warrant thanks to a century-old Supreme Court decision, according to a new study by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian-leaning public-interest law firm. In a study published in the spring 2024 issue of Regulation, a publication of the Cato Institute, Institute for Justice attorney Josh Windham and research analyst David Warren estimate that at least 96 percent of all private land in the...
  • BREAKING: IRS official Alex Mena who works in “Criminal Investigations” says IRS ‘has no problem going after the small people, putting people in prison, and destroying people’s lives.’

    02/21/2024 1:59:26 PM PST · by packagingguy · 60 replies
    @JamesOKeefeIII at Twitter/X ^ | February 21, 2024 | James O'Keefe
    Mena ‘doubts the constitutionality’ of his employer, the IRS, using AI to access everybody’s bank accounts nationwide. Mena recalls IRS agents stating “…the first person you shoot you’re gonna remember, but after that you’re gonna shoot like a hundred people, you’re not gonna remember any of them.” He says IRS agents “are assholes...they are the definition of an asshole, all of them.” This video was obtained by an O’Keefe Media citizen journalist who is a part of our American Swiper Program.
  • The IRS will pursue business private jet usage in a new round of audits on high-wealth taxpayers

    02/21/2024 11:51:39 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 45 replies
    Associated Press ^ | February 21, 2024 | Fatima Hussein
    First, there were trackers on Taylor Swift and other celebrities’ private jet usage. Now, there will be more scrutiny on executives’ personal use of business aircraft who write it off as a tax expense. IRS leadership said Wednesday that the agency will start conducting dozens of audits on businesses’ private jets and how they are used personally by executives and written off as a tax deduction — as part of the agency’s ongoing mission of going after high-wealth tax cheats who game the tax system at the expense of American taxpayers. The audits will focus on aircraft used by large...
  • Google to warn users they can be tracked while in Chrome's 'Incognito' mode

    01/26/2024 2:55:03 PM PST · by Enterprise · 19 replies
    https://www.abc.net.au ^ | 18 Jan 2024 | ABC site
    Google's Chrome web browser will soon include a warning that "private" browsing does not prevent users from being tracked, a move that comes months after Google settled a related privacy lawsuit. In December, Google settled a $5 billion privacy lawsuit, which alleged that it spied on people who used Chrome's private browsing — or 'Incognito' — mode. A pre-release version of the browser has been found to include an updated privacy warning that addresses a key piece of evidence in the settled lawsuit — that users "overestimate" the privacy protection features in Chrome. When the change is rolled out, users...
  • Federal Appeals Court Slams FBI’s Actions In Security Deposit Box Raid

    01/24/2024 6:49:34 PM PST · by george76 · 57 replies
    Institute for Justice ^ | January 23, 2024 | Andrew Wimer ·
    Ninth Circuit panel unanimously orders FBI to destroy records it created during searches of US Private Vaults boxes.. PASADENA, Calif.—This morning, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel unanimously ruled against the government in a long-running class action lawsuit from the Institute for Justice (IJ) on behalf of people who rented security deposit boxes at US Private Vaults. The decision slammed the FBI for overstepping its authority when it opened up hundreds of renters’ boxes, conducted criminal searches of them all, and attempted to permanently keep everything in the boxes worth more than $5,000, all without charging any box...
  • Judge rescinds permission for Trump to give his own closing argument at his NY civil trial

    01/10/2024 10:05:54 AM PST · by janetjanet998 · 37 replies
    JUST IN - Judge rescinds permission for Trump to give his own closing argument at his NY civil trial — AP
  • Intel ‘Experts’ Who Falsely Discredited Hunter Biden Laptop Call To Extend Warrantless Spying On Americans

    12/12/2023 8:37:21 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 15 replies
    The Federalist ^ | DECEMBER 12, 2023 | TRISTAN JUSTICE
    The same intelligence ‘experts’ who penned the Biden laptop letter in October 2020 are now calling on lawmakers to reauthorize Section 702 of FISA.The same intelligence “experts” who penned the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter in October 2020 are now calling on lawmakers to reauthorize the warrantless surveillance state through the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). On Monday, 46 former national security officials signed a letter urging Capitol Hill to rubber stamp the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The same law was abused by deep-state FBI agents to surveil members of Trump’s campaign. The...
  • 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...
  • The FBI took $86 million from safe deposit boxes. An appeals court will decide if that's constitutional

    12/07/2023 4:20:57 PM PST · by george76 · 46 replies
    Fox News ^ | December 7, 2023 | Hannah Ray Lambert
    Civil rights attorneys argue FBI defied warrant by searching people's safe deposit boxes... FBI agents cataloged Cartier bracelets, Rolex watches and stacks of cash as they combed through safe deposit boxes seized from a Beverly Hills business accused of money laundering. But the owners of many of those boxes were not accused of any crimes. After hearing arguments from both sides Thursday, a panel of judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will decide whether the sweeping raid violated customers' Fourth Amendment rights. ... Agents took about $86 million in cash from the boxes, as well as a trove...
  • The White House Goes Rogue: Secret Surveillance Program Breaks All the Laws

    11/30/2023 7:08:27 AM PST · by Enlightened1 · 46 replies
    The Rutherford Institue ^ | 11/29/23 | John & Nisha Whitehead
    “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” — William O. Douglas, dissenting in Osborn v. United States (1966)The government wants us to believe that we have nothing to fear from its mass spying programs as long as we’ve done nothing wrong.Don’t believe it.It doesn’t matter whether you obey every law. The government’s definition of a “bad” guy is extraordinarily broad, and it results in the warrantless surveillance of innocent, law-abiding Americans on a staggering scale.For instance, it was recently revealed that the...
  • Trump demands jury, says New York AG has 'no case' in heated testimony

    11/06/2023 8:07:54 PM PST · by bitt · 60 replies
    FOXNEWS ^ | 11/6/2023 | By Brooke Singman , Maria Paronich
    Former President Trump demanded a jury Monday after his unprecedented time on the stand, calling the civil trial against him and his businesses a "disgrace" and saying New York Attorney General Letitia James has "no case." Trump described his forced testimony as "election interference" while maintaining that his net worth is "far greater" than financial statements during testimony Monday. The former president and 2024 Republican presidential front-runner took the stand Monday morning in the non-jury civil trial stemming from James’ lawsuit against him, his family and his businesses. James alleged Trump defrauded banks and inflated the value of his assets....
  • 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...
  • 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...