Are Rand Paul’s NSA Metadata Concerns Misplaced?
CHQ Staff | 5/28/2015 Earlier this week Fox News’s Megyn Kelly conducted an incisive interview with Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) about his opposition to the National Security Agency’s...
View ArticleYes, Your Data Is Your Property Protected By The 4th Amendment
CHQ Staff | 6/1/2015 Section 215 of the Patriot Act expired at midnight Sunday night. While Congress debates extending the NSA’s surveillance programs that were operating under Section 215 of the...
View ArticleConservatives Urge Senator Lee on 4th Amendment Protections
CHQ Staff | 6/4/2015 One hundred conservatives from across the country sent Senator Mike Lee a letter urging him to abolish the use of “judge-less” administrative subpoenas to obtain emails of...
View ArticleRand Paul: Don’t Trust a Lying Government
Senator Rand Paul, Time The USA Freedom Act, which the Senate approved Tuesday, still threatens the constitutional rights of Americans. Apologists for collecting all the phone records of all Americans...
View Article4th Amendment ideological blinder of the week
Mark J. Fitzgibbons, Esq. | 6/12/2015 John Wesley Hall is a Fourth Amendment expert and blogger for whom I normally have tremendous respect. I don’t know his politics, but he’s obviously not a...
View ArticleThe progressive roots of NSA's privacy violations
CHQ Staff | 6/22/2015 Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy anticipated the growth of today's all encompassing administrative state when he wrote, "Excessive use or abuse of authority can not only...
View ArticleReligious Conservatives Best ‘Get Right’ With the 4th Amendment
Mark J. Fitzgibbons, Esq. | 6/29/2015 The Supreme Court's decision on same-sex "marriage" will now pit the power and resources of the federal, state and even local governments against individuals,...
View ArticleAnother Assault On Your Fourth Amendment Rights
CHQ Staff | 7/20/2015 Soon, everything will be considered within the reach of our soft-police state government in violation of the Fourth Amendment unless administrative subpoenas are outlawed, as...
View ArticleFuror Grows Over Feds Issuing Warrant-Less Subpoenas
Kathryn Watson, The Daily Caller A legal conflict is intensifying between federal officials and civil liberties advocates defending Americans’ medical privacy rights in a case that points to the...
View ArticleEmail privacy bill violates...email privacy
Mark J. Fitzgibbons, Esq., American Thinker This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on the ECPA Amendments Act (S. 356), that chamber’s version the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 699) over in...
View ArticleThe government can easily get your phone records without asking a judge
Jerry Markon, The Washington Post The administrative subpoena is a tool that lawyers and former government officials say federal agencies are increasingly turning to as a way to force people and...
View ArticleDonor Info Under Assault
Mark Fitzgibbons, The NonProfit Times Charity solicitation regulators have been defeated four times since 1980 in the Supreme Court of the United States but — a bit like Freddie Krueger — they keep...
View ArticleA Citizen Cross Examines Rep. Ted Poe On The Fourth Amendment
Mark J. Fitzgibbons, Esq. | 107/2015 Our collegue Mark J. Fitzgibbons offers Rep. Ted Poe of Texas some friendly conservative cross-examination about Poe's October 6 op/ed at Fox News (“Your emails,...
View Article4th Amendment for me, but not for thee
Mark J. Fitzgibbons, Esq., The American Thinker When government wants emails from those on the left without a warrant from a judge, that’s a violation of privacy protected by the 4th Amendment. When...
View ArticleFederal Bureaucrats Find ‘Superhighway’ Around 4th, 5th Amendments
The Daily Surge Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials recently used a warrant-less subpoena on a Texas-based grocery chain that fired an employee who failed a post-maternity leave physical...
View ArticleFTC goes 'Star Chamber' on warrant transparency
Mark J. Fitzgibbons, Esq., The American Thinker Nobody knows how many administrative subpoenas are issued by government agencies. Administrative subpoenas are warrants for records such as private...
View ArticleCongressmen Move To Protect Silicon Valley, But Ignore Individual Privacy
Kathryn Watson, The Daily Caller Congress’ proposed “Email Privacy Act” lets federal agencies continue subpoenaing citizens’ emails, bank account numbers and phone call records without first...
View ArticleThe Unconstitutionality of the Exxon Subpoena
Philip Hamburger, LibertyLawSite.org The difficulty is that conclusions about climate change, on either side of the question, are often difficult to distinguish from political opinion. Although the...
View ArticlePolice-State Attorneys General Cheered By Left, May Be Sued By Right
Mark Fitzgibbons, CNS News Just as the Federalist Society and various conservative public interest law firms sprang up during the past 30 years in response to abuses of constitutional rights by the...
View ArticleConservative Leaders Demand Hearing On IRS Privacy Violations
CHQ Staff | 5/19/2016 Conservative leaders are fighting serious violations and evasions of the Internal Revenue Code by California Attorney General Kamala Harris and New York Attorney General Eric...
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