David Cole, national legal director of the ACLU, is legal-affairs correspondent for The Nation. He is the author, most recently, of Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed.
In ruling that police may not search cellphones without a warrant, the Court brought the Fourth Amendment into the twenty-first century.
That was when the Bureau of Investigation—the forerunner of today’s FBI—first opened a file on the magazine.
The president has made a step toward better oversight, but his proposals leave the agency’s system of dragnet surveillance mostly intact.
Updating the Fourth Amendment has been done before, to address the invention of cars, phones and GPS. It’s time to do it again.
Americans are justifiably upset about the NSA’s sweeping domestic surveillance. But we should be just as concerned about spying on foreigners.
Affirmative action survives, for now, but the Court erects new hurdles for employment discrimination suits.
In a 6-2 decision, the Court prohibited the government from requiring organizations to espouse specific ideas in order to receive funding.
Somewhere along the way, we lost our bearings on the balance between privacy and security.
A stunning report by The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald reveals that the NSA has been tracking every call by Verizon business customers. How far does the spying go?