The Brennan Center, Muslim Advocates, and Americans United praised a judge’s decision to order the government to produce materials related to the formulation of its third Muslim Ban.
Because the government could still search the 702 data without a warrant at the early stages of its investigations, the FBI acknowledged to lawmakers that the bill’s warrant requirement would rarely apply in practice.
Brennan Center Experts, including Liberty & National Security Program Co-Director Faiza Patel and Senior Counsel Michael W. Price, are available for interview on the case and Trump’s immigration policy.
The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law is hosting a briefing, open to the media and public, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, December 5, at 10:30 AM.
Today, Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced a bill that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) with several reforms.
The USA Liberty Act, which passed the U.S. House Judiciary Committee today, leaves in a place a loophole permitting warrantless surveillance of Americans' communications.
The USA RIGHTS Act goes much further than the USA Liberty Act, a reform bill introduced by a bipartisan group of House Judiciary Committee members earlier this month.
Zakzok v. Trump was brought by the Center and CAIR on behalf of six American Muslim plaintiffs for whom the travel ban would have devastating consequences.
