New Jersey, Christie, Fight to Allow Sports Gambling
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is fighting to defend a law he signed in January that permits betting on professional sporting events. Though Christie has bipartisan support for the law in...
Constitution
TrapWire: The Federal Gov’t is Literally Watching Every Move You Make
The U.S. government exercises control over a massive and technologically advanced surveillance system that has the capacity to keep nearly the entire population of this country under the watchful eye of...
WH Website Takes Down Anti-TSA Petition
A petition about the screening procedures used by the Transportation Security Administration at airports was removed from the White House “We the People” website just before it reached the necessary 25,000...
The Pursuit of Whistleblowers Continues as Judge Denies Informant’s Motion
On August 8, U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema denied a CIA whistleblower’s motion to dismiss for vagueness and overbreadth charges brought against him by the Obama administration charging him with...
Group Plans Protest Against NDAA
A group of concerned citizens known as PANDA (People Against the National Defense Act), formed in January 2012, has organized protests nationwide against the indefinite detention provisions of the NDAA. PANDA...
Media, Civil Rights Groups Challenge Gitmo Trial Secrecy
The Army colonel presiding over the trial of five men accused of participating in the attacks of September 11, 2001 has ruled that attorneys for a consortium of media and civil...
Govt May Now Collect, Catalog, and Store All Private Information
Imagine that the U.S. government had the power to scour the reams of public records and collect and collate every bit of personal information about every citizen of this country. Now...
Senator Rand Paul’s Bill to Protect Citizens From Drone Surveillance
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's bill to protect citizens from surveillance by drones needs 48 more cosponsors in order to rein in the Supreme Court's approvals of such surveillance. ...
Court Orders TSA to Explain Lawless Use of Naked Body Scanners
About a year ago, a federal appeals court ordered the deeply unpopular Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to obey the law and hold public hearings on its widely loathed “naked body scanners.”...
Justice Dept. Official Refuses to Rule Out Criminalizing Criticism Of Religion
Opponents of Sharia Law think the Obama administration will ditch the First Amendment to protect Islam. And Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) put Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez on the hot seat during a hearing held...
Are Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal Natural-born Citizens?
There is significant evidence that neither Senator Marco Rubio of Florida nor Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is a natural born citizen as required by the U.S. Constitution for holding the...
Ninth Circuit OKs Feds Use of Cellphones as Roving Bugs
In it decision in the case of the United States v. Oliva, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the federal government may remotely convert cellphones into roving bugs. ...
Michigan State and Local Govts Propose NDAA Nullifying Bills
Citizens of Michigan continue to press for passage of a state law that would nullify the execution of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) within the boundaries of the Great Lakes...
Cities Threaten to Violate Chick-fil-A Owners’ Rights
Chick-fil-A has been enduring the wrath of the pro-gay community recently because of the company’s Christian stance on same-sex marriage. However, what was once a conflict of ideologies is now becoming...
Judge Criticizes Secret Electronic Surveillance Warrants
Judge Stephen W. Smith has criticized the law permitting the process of obtaining an electronic surveillance warrant to be kept secret. ...