A more than year-long battle over America's most controversial and abused surveillance power ended in total victory for Surveillance State defenders. To reverse the damage, civil libertarians must build an electoral capacity to eject from Congress those who subvert the Bill of Rights.
The "Great War" ushered in the modern national security apparatus, and with it, a secrecy law as draconian as it is ineffective at protecting real secrets
A former Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer-turn-law professor's full throated, timely defense of the First Amendment
When the Inspector General Act was passed in 1978, its backers hoped it would usher in a new age of government oversight. A case involving the Justice Department demonstrates that was magical thinking
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was intended to make the federal government more transparent. Its author would be appalled at how courts have eviscerated it. Congress should fix it.
All nine agreed states can't enforce a federal constitutional provision governing ballot access, but three accused the majority of insulating past and future insurrectionists from disqualification
Conceived as the voice and protector of the people, it has instead too frequently been an instrument of repression
In which the Administration bans China from buying your data but not the FBI, and how it links to the FISA reauthorization fight.
House and Senate GOP efforts to revive a racist Trump era program targeting people of Chinese heritage are morally repugnant and endanger our national security
Sometimes, you just gotta sue to fight the Feds
A misleadingly titled book saves the best political and historical insights for the footnotes