Congress
The TAPS Act, Predictive Policing, and a PreCrime Dystopian Nightmare?
If you’ve seen the film minority report – or read the Philip K Dick short story it’s based on, you’re familiar with the idea of “precrime.” It’s a dystopian vision of a predictive policing system where government detains people before they commit a given crime....
The CIA’s “Intelligence Authorization Act” Would Criminalize Whistleblowers and Reporters
A CIA written Bill called the Intelligence Authorization Act (SB 3153) would criminalize whistleblowers and reporters. Section 733 Sense of Congress on WikiLeaks: “It is the sense of Congress that WikiLeaks and the senior leadership of WikiLeaks resemble a...
Trump Administration Will Likely Hit Borrowing Limit Sooner Than Expected
Aided and abetted by Congress, the Trump administration continues to spend America into oblivion. Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin wants Congress to go ahead and raise the debt ceiling before the August recess because analysts now think the government will hit...
Clutching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Gundy and the Prohibition on Delegation
The prohibition on the delegation of legislative power to the executive is one of the key structural features of the Constitution’s original meaning. The prohibition prevents the legislature from passing a law that authorizes the executive (instead of the legislature)...