Fourth Amendment

NYPD Designates Some Mosques as Terrorist Organizations and Conservative Twitterdom Gives Three Cheers

If you've ever walked around the city and seen those NYPD machines that look like cherry pickers with a viewing deck, you've just passed a NYPD surveillance unit. Someone on that block or near it is getting their insides X-rayed by some cop in a spy treehouse. Now you can expect to see more of those ... More >>

SCOTUS-Backed Surveillance Law Built on a Bush-Era Lie

NYC Federal Court Rules Major Part of 'Stop & Frisk' Unconstitutional

When we wrote an article entitled '2012: The Year Of Stop & Frisk' a week ago, this is the last tidbit of news we expected to hear.Yesterday, in Manhattan's Federal District Court, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin struck down a main tent of the Bloomberg administration's notorious crime-fighting tactic ... More >>

The Police Don't Need a Warrant to Subpoena Your Tweets, Judge Rules

Twitter messages, obviously, are public. That's the point of social media: to share, to broadcast. But one of the reasons people continue to tweet -- and to post incriminating photographs of their youthful kegstands on Facebook -- is the illusion that they have some measure of control over what they ... More >>

Governor Cuomo Joins the Lawless Kelly-Bloomberg Gang

Isn’t it time the NYPD had some real oversight?

You Can Get Strip Searched for an Unpaid Parking Ticket: Thanks, U.S. Supreme Court

Bad news if you don't like getting dehumanized: The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled 5-4 to OK strip searches for any offense. What this means: if you get booked for an offense as minor as an unpaid parking ticket, you might have to bare all for corrections officers before being admitted to jail. Y ... More >>

The Constitution Versus Ray Kelly

A new coalition is ready to take its fight to the commissioner

Jazz Hayden and the Fight Against Stop-and-Frisk

An unlikely activist's battle with the NYPD's frisky business

UAW Endorses Occupy Wall Street; Massive March Planned Today

This morning the UAW -- the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America -- issued an official endorsement of Occupy Wall Street, which they deem "a movement for economic and political justice." They've said they'll commit resources to the movement ... More >>

Transport Workers Union Denied Injunction Against City's Use of Bus Drivers to Transport Arrested Protesters; Suit Not Dismissed

Today the Transport Workers Union, which last week voted unanimously in support of Occupy Wall Street, went to court to fight against the city's use of city bus drivers to transport arrested protesters. Following the Brooklyn Bridge arrests on Saturday, the Union said the NYPD had commandeered numer ... More >>

Bus Drivers Should Not Have to Transport Arrested Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Says TWU

In the aftermath of more than 700 reported arrests of protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, Occupy Wall Street continues to occupy a large portion of the news. This video has been circulating of what seems to be a very young girl (we've heard 13 years old, though that's not confirmed) being ... More >>

Bloomberg Schools Flunk the Constitution

We're raising a generation that doesn't know its rights

Police Can Now Break In As You're Flushing Your Stash

The Supreme Court decided in an 8-1 decision that police have the authority to break into your house if they suspect you're destroying drugs. The Chicago Tribune brings us part of Justice Alito's important decision: "'When law enforcement officers who are not armed with a warrant knock on a door, th ... More >>

The Runnin' Scared Gift Guide: 100 Presents for the Drunks, Exes, Neurotics, Sex Fiends, and Loved Ones on Your List

#76, Golden Girls Xmas Ornaments​So many gift guides, so little time. But how many lists of gifts under $50, or gifts for moms-to-be, or gifts for boyfriends and girlfriends and dogs can you really look at before wondering, where is the gift guide to end all gift guides? Where is the gift guid ... More >>

Do You Miss Our Constitution?

No previous American law has been as subversive as the Military Commissions Act of 2006

Afraid of Freedom?

Backtracking on warrantless surveillance, president still scorns privacy rights.

George Bush: Recidivist

A judge who came out of the civil rights movement teaches Bush the Constitution.

Sunday 7/30

Learning Why We're Americans

Schools fail the future when they don't teach individual liberties in the Constitution

The Ultimate Spiderweb

NSA whistle-blower wants to tell congress, but they don't have clearance to hear

Letters

George Bush: Master Spy

Unilateral president exposed in his ignorance of Constitution he's sworn to protect

Letters

FBI Turned Loose

Privacy rights may disappear if a new Senate Intelligence Committee bill passes

Is It Really So Wrong to Get Searched at a Protest?

Bill Kill

How to get the public interested in campaign finance reform? Think Pam Grier.

The Death of Operation TIPS

Volunteer Spying Corps Dismissed

Buying Trouble

Your grocery list could spark a terror probe

Nation

Bloomberg vs. Failing Schools

The Case for Merit Pay

Burglars With Badges

The Return of 'Black Bag Jobs'

John Ashcroft v. the Constitution

Giving the FBI a ‘Blank Warrant’

Abandoning the Constitution to Military Tribunals

The War on the Bill of Rights

Coming: A National Wiretap Warrant

Supreme Court Ruling:
Real Time for Little Crime

Justices Put Average Citizens at Risk of Arrest

Shutter Bugged

New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

The Patriot

Ralph Nader Keeps Democracy Alive

Who's for the Bill of Rights?

The Return of J. Edgar Hoover

Misguided Multiculturalism

Our Historical Illiteracy

Letters

Stop, Drop, and Swab

New York Police Ponder Portable DNA Labs

Lawless Arrests Under Giuliani

Howard Safir — I Am the Law!

Giuliani's Götterdämmerung

No Hunting is Like the Hunting of Man

Will the Right Rule?

What Will Happen to the Constitution If Clinton Is Convicted?

What's Happening to the Left?

Bill Clinton Has Consistently Violated the Bill of Rights

The Case Against Hate-Crime Laws

Federalizing Hate Crimes Will Increase Double Jeopardy

Bugging Out

Spycam City

The Surveillance Society: Part One

New York as a Jim Crow Disgrace

In Giuliani's Time, Black Parents Teach Kids To Fear Cops