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This is a guest post by Hugh Handeyside, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project, Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, and Esha Bhandari, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. It was originally posted on the ACLU Speak Freely blog.
In September 2017, we, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sued the federal government for its warrantless and suspicionless searches of phones and laptops at airports and other U.S. ports of entry.
The government immediately tried to dismiss our case, arguing that the First and Fourth Amendments do not protect against such searches. But the court ruled that our clients — 10 U.S. citizens and one lawful permanent resident whose phones and laptops were searched while returning to the United States — could move forward with their claims.
Since then, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have had to turn over documents and evidence about why and how they conduct warrantless and suspicionless searches of electronic devices at the border. And their officials have had to sit down with us to explain — under oath — their policies and practices governing such warrantless searches.
What we learned is alarming, and we're now back in court with this new evidence asking the judge to skip trial altogether and rule for our clients.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @04:18PM (8 children)
Anything goes in a country where the attorney general is in contempt of the court... the lunatics are truly running the asylum.
Brace for the Enabling Act of 2019...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 02 2019, @04:21PM (5 children)
Can you please elaborate on this Enabling Act, even while I am bracing for it?
(I was bracing for the executive branch to dissolve the legislative and judicial branches by executive order and use the military to keep them out of their offices and buildings. It would streamline government and make things more efficient.)
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 5, Informative) by PinkyGigglebrain on Thursday May 02 2019, @04:32PM (4 children)
Enabling Act of 1933 [wikipedia.org]
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 02 2019, @04:37PM (3 children)
Wow. So it sounds like I was already waiting for the Enabling Act without realizing it. Thank you!
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2, Informative) by fustakrakich on Thursday May 02 2019, @04:58PM
Wait no more! We now join your program... already in progress [justice.gov]... Remember this is only the pilot episode, but will probably run as long as General Hospital..
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:30PM (1 child)
It won't come until after the hyperinflation of the USD, which is all but baked in at this point. The only other way is a debt jubilee and new world reserve currency. But most "assets" now correspond to someone else's debt, so that would mean a lot of people have a lot less wealth than they think.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:37PM
Just the other day the treasury department released a chart showing that all new US debt will be used to pay interest on the old debt by 2024. The ponzi is accelerating to its inevitable conclusion.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by slinches on Thursday May 02 2019, @07:44PM (1 child)
Of course your political opponents and anyone who would dare defend them (regardless of the facts) are Nazis, they must be. They think differently than you do, which justifies all out political warfare including the abuse of the legal process for political attacks. Then when they try to defend themselves, you can claim obstruction and arrest/impeach them on those grounds. There's no way you could possibly be in the wrong on anything, so any and all means to reach your ends are justified.
If you don't see how that line of thinking is beyond problematic, then you are closer to being a Nazi than anyone.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday May 03 2019, @08:16PM
Ohhh, you mean... like a Nazi?
Yeah, we're all wrong in our treatment of the Nazi's. Let's give honest debate to whether or not genocide are good things, whether white is truly supreme, and just how dirty (quantifiably of course) does the average immigrant make America?
Likewise, it isn't hate filled racist propaganda completely divested from facts, but legitimate viewpoints being suppressed.
LOL.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.