Fourth Amendment

As it stands, Customs can grab anyone at the border, seize their laptop, and demand passwords and encryption keys as a pre-condition to entering the country. And who knows when you'll get your computer back?

The FISA bill goes further to extend the power of the executive to collect our communications than the president's original secret spying program. The Fourth Amendment was essentially eviscerated.

A reasonably evenhanded biography of Barack Obama, published last year, describes him as "an exceptionally gifted politician who, throughout his ...

Somehow Obama thought it was a good idea to go along with these surrender monkeys on the 4th amendment. But aside from the politics, it's a pathetic acquiescence to the wishes of Al Qaeda.

Early next week the U.S. Senate will vote on an extension of FISA. That such a gutting of the Fourth Amendment even made it out of committee is yet another stain on the gutless and seemingly powerless Democratic majority in Congress.

If we don't like the Second Amendment, then we should agitate to get rid of it in the methods the Founders prescribed. But we might want to think twice.

If the Bush administration releases the fourth amendment that it is currently holding hostage, I'm happy to consider the Supreme Court decision on the second amendment final and decisive.

According to a new Department of Justice memo, it seems the Bush administration has justified its crimes by not suspending the state of emergency that went up on 9/11.

Years of anti-immigration rhetoric has led Republicans to institutionalize the Latino equivalent of the "N" word.

It's about time that everyone in America realizes that if you allow a drug war exception to the Fourth Amendment, the Constitution is effectively moot.

We must not let anyone advance the bogus argument -- repeated by Joe Klein -- that protecting American's against unwarranted search and seizure necessarily requires a compromise in their security.

When officials must establish before a court that they have reason to intercept communications, we get better intelligence than through indiscriminate collection and fishing expeditions.

Will Congress, in an attempt to demonstrate strength, cowardly succumb to the president's desires by ignoring the Bill of Rights?