With Unanimous Passage through the House, the Email Privacy Act will Modernize Online Data Privacy
Back in the 1980s, everyone was walking around with their perms and mullets, Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson were playing sold out concerts, and people still couldn’t believe that Darth…
Civil Asset Forfeiture: Grading the States
Civil asset forfeiture is a unique area of law in which the government charges specific property of being guilty of wrongdoing, rather than a person. Perhaps because the property is…
No-Knock Raids Create Dangers for the Families and Law Enforcement
Cory Maye, a loving father of an 18 month old daughter at the time, was sleeping in his living room the day after Christmas at 12:30 a.m. when he…
Jeb Bush says the “best part” of Obama’s presidency is the NSA’s unconstitutional domestic spying program
Jeb Bush continues to defend the National Security Agency’s unconstitutional domestic spying program, telling a conservative talk show host that this gross encroachment on the Fourth Amendment is the "best…
Jeb Bush is wrong about the NSA’s unconstitutional domestic spying program
There’s no indication that the National Security Agency’s unconstitutional domestic spying efforts have thwarted an actual terrorist plot inside the United States. In January 2014, the New America Foundation…
Civil Forfeiture Reform: States Have Led, More Need to Follow
Under civil asset forfeiture, the government can take someone’s property without convicting them of a crime. The law has its basis in British admiralty law and makes little sense in…
CPAC Panel on Asset Forfeiture
The practice of asset forfeiture has been a hot topic in Washington D.C. lately, whether it has been Attorney General Eric Holder announcing the federal government will no longer…
Lawsuit forces a Nevada county to return innocent people’s money illegally taken through civil asset forfeiture
In November 2013, Trevor Paine was on his through Humboldt County, Nevada on his way to California when he was stopped by a deputy from local sheriff’s department for driving…
House Hearing on Civil Forfeiture
Imagine this, you are moving from Michigan to California to start a new life and your dad gave you $2,500 to help you start out on your feet. While driving…
Civil Asset Forfeiture: When Due Process and Property Rights Don’t Count
On February 6 the Federalist Society held as Civil Asset Forfeiture Update on Capitol Hill with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Institute for Justice as cosponsors. The event…