Fourth Amendment

Benghazi, Immigration, Syria: Rightbloggers Smear NSA (and Obama) on Everything

The NSA controversy, which continues to develop, has been useful in a lot of ways. It's gotten people talking after a long period of quiet about the surveillance powers of the state -- and whereas the national security state had legions of defenders back in post-9/11 days, in these post-post-9/11 da ... More >>

Rightbloggers Find NSA Spying on Americans--And This Time They're Against It!

Last week many Americans discovered that their government is spying on them. We are not sure how many of them had a hunch such a thing was happening, though since 9/11, the signing of the Patriot Act, and various government snooping stories, we would guess the number to be very high. Many rightblog ... More >>

In New Vision of Politics, Rightbloggers Denounce Boehner the Leader, Praise DeMint the Leaver

Jim DeMint, one of the most ideologically pure and least effective legislators in the U.S. Senate, announced he would leave Congress to run the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank; or, as the Foundation itself put it, "Jim DeMint to Lead the Battle of Ideas." It would seem to us that, compar ... More >>

Facing Contempt, Twitter Turns Over User's Records In Brooklyn Bridge Arrest Case

Twitter rolled over in court today, turning over a fat sheaf of records subpoenaed by prosecutors in the case of Malcolm Harris, one of the people arrested last fall in a protest on the Brooklyn Bridge. In what is shaping up to be a landmark case for privacy in the digital era, prosecutors had dema ... More >>

Fear and Loathing in Tampa

From cash-hungry strippers to protesters dressed as vaginas, your gonzo guide to the Republican National Convention

New York City Hit With Another Park Artist Lawsuit, Allegations of B.S. Arrest

Another day, another report of legal drama between New York artists and City admins, it seems. Here's what's going on today: as we reported just yesterday, there are currently two lawsuits -- one filed at the state level, the other filed at the federal level -- which will basically decide whether N ... More >>

Judge Rules Twitter Must Turn Over Protester's Tweets, Even Without A Warrant

A Manhattan judge today ruled against Twitter, arguing that it had to turn over a protester's tweets to prosecutors, without the account user's consent and without a warrant. When we last checked in on the case of Malcolm Harris, a writer at The New Inquiry and one of 700 people arrested on the Bro ... More >>

Ray Kelly Versus the First Amendment--On My Street

Beware: Ray Kelly for Next FBI Director?

Sex Offender Suing MySpace Because He Got Caught

"Why don't you have a seat?"​From Adweek comes the troubling story of a convicted Georgia sex offender, Cory Hubbard, who is suing MySpace for providing authorities his information based on an out-of-state warrant. Hubbard's lawsuit in Manhattan federal court alleges that the struggling social ... More >>

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

The TSA Battlefront: Privacy Vs. Security

"The good ol' days.."​What with the looming holiday season and the busiest travel days of the year, along with the TSA's most recent security measures, there's a significant debate brewing over who's right, who's wrong, and what, exactly, is going too far. Many have reported being patted down "ina ... More >>

George W. Obama

After his first year, Obama shows his true face

Bloomberg Wants to Get in Your Genes

Compared to the present mayor’s contempt for civil liberties, Giuliani was a piker

Post Haste

A missing Queens soldier becomes a journo-political pawn

When Judges Attack!

The war president is finding a less pliant judiciary

Rudy Redux

Will we get another law-and-order mayor who decides on his own what the law is?

The Mayor and His Shock Troops

Will Bloomberg run on his record of bullying schoolchildren and teachers?

Blue Wall of Lawlessness

The NYPD has a long-standing reputation for its "excessive" surveillance. Now more than ever.

Saving Free Speech and Jesus

Religious and conservative groups support the 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' banner under fire at the Supreme Court

Letters

No Place to Hide

National Security Agency, not the Times, greatly harms our constitutional privacy

The Senators and Mr. Vague

Verbatim: A sampler of meaningless statements by Samuel Alito

The Bush Family Coup

Son revisits the sins of the father on America

The Bush Family Coup

The son revisits the sins of the father on America

The Danger After Miers

The departure of the bastinadoed Harriet Miers does not take Bush off the hook

The Broken Constitution

More eyewitnesses to U.S. torture of detainees pierce the Bush administration's cover-up

Excluded From the High Court

Has any present Supreme Court justice seen a cop lying on the witness stand?

John Roberts v. One French Fry

Beneath his black robes, what does Roberts reveal of his values as a human being?

Letters

The Silver Lining of Bush's Supreme Agenda

How the people could win even if the court seems like a lost cause

The Once and Former Rule of Law

Could Ashcroft Pass a Quiz on the Constitution?

Ashcroft's New Ally

Senator Schumer Pushes to Make Covert Surveillance Easier

Ashcroft's Shadowy Disciple

Someone to Watch Over Us

Things We Lost in the Fire

While the Ruins of the World Trade Center Smoldered, the Bush Administration Launched an Assault on the Constitution

Lift Every Voice

Minority Retorts

Post-Cogging Spielberg's Action Allegory

A Book Unfit for 'The New York Times'

The Cultures of Newsrooms

Daschle-Gephardt-Clinton Waltz

What Does the Democratic Party Stand For?

Technology and Its Discontents

Cyber-libertarians, Technologists, and Congress Wrangle Over Electronic Privacy Issues During Wartime

Gil Scott-Heron’s Rap

Probable Cause and a Poet’s Problems

The Man Who Stood Up to Bobby Kennedy

Alone on the Floor of the House

Tap, Tap . . . Who's There?

The FBI, Courtesy of the New York Court of Appeals

Giuliani vs. Thomas Jefferson

God Will Be the Curriculum

The Glitterati Attack Ken Starr

When the President Perjures Himself, Is He Above All Laws?