In a major victory for privacy rights, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that the government needs a warrant to obtain location information from cell phones showing where a user has been.
Countering Violent Extremism programs, already controversial in the Obama era for their reliance on debunked methodology and targeting of Muslim communities, have had their worst qualities supercharged by the Trump administration.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement abandoned efforts to build a program to predict, using analysis of social media and other online sources, who would contribute to the “national interest” or commit a terrorist act.
Two proposals on Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), developed respectively by Sens. Bob Corker and Tim Kaine, and Sen. Jeff Merkley, take vastly different approaches.
President Trump’s Muslim ban is tearing apart families and stigmatizing entire communities, according to an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court today on behalf of six individual American Muslims and their families.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that Pres. Trump’s third attempt to institute the Muslim Ban promised during his presidential campaign is likely unconstitutional.
Brennan Center President Michael Waldman issued a statement decrying Pres. Trump's approval of the release of a House Republican memo on the FBI investigation into his campaign.
Both chambers of the U.S. Congress voted to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, with changes that, for the first time, explicitly endorse warrantless searches of millions of Americans’ communications.
