Senate Votes to Trash Fourth Amendment

by | Jan 17, 2018

Senate Votes to Trash Fourth Amendment

by | Jan 17, 2018

The U.S. Senate is no more inclined to stop warrantless surveillance of Americans than the House of Representatives was. Today the Senate voted to stop any attempt to limit the government’s power to violate, under FISA Section 702, Americans’ right to privacy as protected by the Fourth Amendment. Read about it here and here and here.

Members of Congress who fear Donald Trump’s abuse of power sure have a funny way of showing it.

Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman is the former executive editor of The Libertarian Institute and a contributing editor at Antiwar.com. He is the former senior editor at the Cato Institute and Institute for Humane Studies; former editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education; and former vice president at the Future of Freedom Foundation. His latest books are Coming to Palestine and What Social Animals Owe to Each Other.

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