If Dutch Ruppersberger will be true to his word, he must oppose the renewal of the Patriot Act’s affront to American liberty. Join the protest March 12 in DC to remind him, and all members of Congress, that it is their responsibility to repeal the Patriot Act.
Lamar Smith is not beginning the Patriot Act investigations that were promised. That makes the March 12 protest against the Patriot Act in Washington D.C. especially important.
In spite of their promises to strictly honor the Constitution, congressional Republicans last week pushed through a renewal of clearly unconstitutional provisions of the Patriot Act.
For Tom McClintock, supporting the Patriot Act was expected, because he is a Republican. However, McClintock knew that extending the Patriot Act was not the conservative thing to do
A full list of who voted for the Patriot Act renewal on Valentine’s Day 2011, who voted against it, and who in Congress didn’t vote at all.
Most members of the House Tea Party Caucus voted in favor of big government and against constitutional rights in yesterday’s vote on extending the abusive Patriot Act.
Representative Jerry Nadler spoke against Patriot Act renewal today. It has been recently revealed that, over a seven-year period, there were tens of thousands of purposeful violations by the FBI of Americans’ rights in the execution of the Patriot Act.
In the face of the Senate’s repeated on-the-record votes against data privacy, it’s an outrageous hypocrisy for senators to vote for a resolution that suggests the observance of National Data Privacy Day – a day after the actual event is over.
Jerrold Nadler, chair of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties in the House Judiciary Committee, has announced that his subcommittee will hold hearings into the illegal FBI spy abuses.
Take your laptop with you on an international business trip, and U.S. border agents can take it from you and search its contents, without ever telling you why they’re doing it. Eliot Engel is trying to change that policy.
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