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What the Blockbuster Documents Uncovered This Week Mean for the Census Citizenship Case at the Supreme Court

With clear evidence that the Trump administration wants the question added purely for political advantage, it’s hard to imagine how the justices could allow it to remain.
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- May 31, 2019
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Oversight of Face Recognition Is Needed to Avoid New Era of ‘Digital Stop and Frisk’

The NYPD’s misuse of facial recognition shows the need for a law providing for more transparency and community control when it comes to surveillance technologies.
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- May 31, 2019
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It’s Time for Automatic Voter Registration in New York

Legislators in Albany have an important opportunity to strengthen democracy in the Empire State.
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- May 29, 2019
An Emergency or Business as Usual? Huawei and Trump’s Emergency Powers

President Trump recently declared another “national emergency”—the fifth of his presidency—over threats to U.S. technology. As with Trump’s earlier national emergency to secure border wall funding that Congress refused to appropriate, the recent declaration may also be an abuse of the president’s emergency powers.
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- May 24, 2019
Far-Right Violence Requires Smart and Strategic Changes to Law Enforcement

Far-right violence poses at least as grave a threat to American communities as violence committed by adherents of al Qaeda and ISIS. As we combat far-right violence, we must take a clear-eyed look at post-9/11 counterterrorism measures, repurposing the ones that worked and jettisoning those that didn’t or that imposed intolerably high costs on fundamental rights.
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- April 12, 2019
Congress Considers Taking Back Its Power

Lawmakers are split over Trump’s emergency decree, but broader reform has strong bipartisan support.
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- March 17, 2019
Trump Is Considering Deputizing the Military as a Civilian Police Force. That Is Terrifying.

The Insurrection Act gives the president a dangerous amount of discretion, including allowing for the deployment of federal troops to suppress domestic uprisings and enforce the law. It is incumbent on Congress to reform these laws before President Trump, or another president, exploits them further.
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- May 21, 2019
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The Government Is Expanding Its Social Media Surveillance Capabilities

But social media monitoring programs and the algorithms that power them aren’t effective — and may be discriminatory.
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- May 22, 2019
Social Monitoring of Students Not Making Schools Safer. Risks Outweigh Rewards.

New tools to monitor and report on “suspicious activity” in schools treat children like potential suspects without making them any safer.
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- May 14, 2019
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A Critical Look at Private Prisons Overseas

Brennan Center Senior Fellow Lauren-Brooke Eisen discusses how her research into private prison facilities in Australia and New Zealand could inform better practices in the United States.
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- May 13, 2019