Waves of assault on the constitutional constraints meant to limit federal power, combined with the relentless expansion of the federal bureaucracy, has led to a steady erosion of the constitutional constraints on federal power-raising the very dangers to self-government and individual liberty that the Framers feared might lead to tyranny.
Technology
Stalin Would Have Killed For The FISA Bill Congress Just Passed
Stalin didn’t need warrants, but he would have wished for the U.S. government’s ability to buy American citizens’ data from data brokers. We lost the battle on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which federal agencies have used to surveil Americans without warrants, in the House of Representatives last week — barely. A group of liberty-minded...
April 18, 2024