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Carpenter Ruling Brings Us Back From Brink of Orwellian Surveillance State
Orwell described a world where limitless surveillance makes us question every action, every thought. Last Friday’s decision in Carpenter v. United States brought us one step…
The Early Edition: June 28, 2018
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In Trump Era, a Need to Revive Ideals of Jefferson’s Pursuit of Happiness
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life,…
The Radical Supreme Court Travel Ban Opinion–But why it might not apply to other immigrants’ rights cases
The Supreme Court adopted a new and radical framework allowing the Justices to sidestep the anti-Muslim animus that motivated the travel ban. But, even by its own logic, the new-fangled…
Trump v Hawaii: Giving Pretext a Pass
There are plenty of reasons to be concerned about the Supreme Court’s majority opinion in Trump v. Hawaii, which upheld the president’s proclamation banning travel to the U.S.…
The Broad Reach of Carpenter v. United States
By focusing on the nature of the information rather than on the telecommunications nitty-gritty used to gather the information or the structure of the database in which the information…
The Early Edition: June 27, 2018
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Carpenter‘s Curiosities (and its Potential to Unsettle Longstanding Fourth Amendment Doctrines)
It’s only peripherally related to national security issues, but I thought some readers who are too overwhelmed or depressed to keep reading about Hawaii v. Trump might be…
What Is the Next Line of Defense Against Torture?
Gina Haspel’s recent elevation to director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) despite her involvement in the George W. Bush administration’s prisoner abuse program and…
The Trump Administration Must Extend Temporary Protected Status for Yemenis
For those Yemenis affected by it, the upcoming DHS decision on the extension of TPS could literally be a matter of life and death, write three former US ambassadors to Yemen.
The Early Edition: June 26, 2018
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A Belief Shattered: The International Criminal Court’s Bemba Acquittal
BANGUI – On June 8, the appeals chamber at the International Criminal Court acquitted Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo of all charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity of murder,…