News Analysis In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision that police officers had acted illegally in collecting months of cell phone data from a private company, without a warrant, to track the movements of a robbery suspect.  The Court majority opinion stated that “in light of the deeply revealing nature of…

The street preacher who was arrested by police shortly after arriving at a June 3 LGBT pride event sponsored by the city of Reading, Pennsylvania, is suing the police, the city, and Reading Mayor Eddie Moran. The group Reading Pride Celebration partnered with the city for a ceremonial raising of the rainbow flag at Reading…

News Analysis “It is also axiomatic that a state may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.” ~ Norwood v. Harrison (1973). Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court held that the U.S. Government cannot coerce private parties to violate citizens’ constitutionally protected liberties. Under the guise of COVID…

The cellphone and other electronic devices of “Juror X,” whose social-media posts during a high-profile federal case created controversy, will not be subjected to forensic examination, a federal appeals court ruled. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio, refused to issue an order allowing a probe of the…

“What we found, and what the whistleblowers found, was that the government and the White House were directly communicating with Big Tech on stories and information they either wanted to promote or suppress,” says Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry. On a recent episode of EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek and Landry discuss assaults…

A federal appeals court ruled unanimously in favor of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday, stating that the mandatory remote identification of civilian drones does not violate the Constitution and that “free-for-all” drone usage is a threat to public safety. The remote ID rules require drones to provide location and identification information during flight,…

In the 1750s, American merchants commonly smuggled goods to avoid excessive British taxes and restrictions, which created a major financial problem for the Crown. To address this problem, the British Parliament approved the use of writs of assistance against the colonists. A writ of assistance was a general search warrant that granted constables and any…

Democrats would “love nothing more” than to take away the right of every American to possess a gun, a Republican House lawmaker has said amid gun control bills passed by the Senate and the House this month. The Senate’s legislation, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, passed on a 65–33 vote on June 23. House Republican…

The FBI’s so-called “secret spy plane surveillance program” is under scrutiny in a Florida terrorism case, where the defendant has asked a U.S. judge to toss evidence from the bureau’s aerial surveillance activities. The FBI’s aerial surveillance program was first revealed in June 2015 by the Associated Press, which reported that the bureau maintained a civilian air…

Instead of obtaining warrants to collect geolocation data from companies, U.S. federal law enforcers have turned to simply purchasing such information—a state of affairs that has privacy advocates calling for Congress to enact reforms. Law enforcement’s purchases of bulk data has been on the rise since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Carpenter v US,…