Constitution

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NSA Said To Collect Millions Of E-mail Address Books, Chat Lists

Steven Musil | CNET | October 14, 2013

Collection occurs when Internet services transmit the data during routine activity such as composing a message, The Washington Post reports. Read More »

Obamacare, The Constitution, And The Original Meaning Of The Commerce Clause

William J. Watkins | The Christian Science Monitor | December 21, 2010

Several lawsuits over the health-care reform's individual mandate hinge on interpretations of the constitution's Commerce Clause. This clause is widely believed to grant Congress broad power over national markets. But that isn't what the founders had in mind. Read More »

One Of The Darkest Periods In The History Of American Prisons

Andrew Cohen | Atlantic | June 9, 2013

Recent lawsuits and Justice Department investigations have uncovered grotesque abuses of mentally ill inmates at state and local prisons. Yet Washington refuses to investigate allegations of similar mistreatment at federal penitentiaries. Read More »

Snowden Saw What I Saw: Surveillance Criminally Subverting The Constitution

Thomas Drake | The Guardian | June 12, 2013

What Edward Snowden has done is an amazingly brave and courageous act of civil disobedience. Read More »

Why the Patent System Doesn't Play Well with Software: If Eolas Went the Other Way

Julie Samuels | opensource.com | February 17, 2012

Everyone take a deep breath: it seems we've had a moment of sanity in the patent wars. Last week, a jury invalidated the dangerous Eolas patents, which their owner claimed covered, well, essentially the whole Internet. 

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WSJ Blasts Apple E-books Antitrust Judge In Scathing Editorial

Shane Cole | Apple Insider | December 6, 2013

A new opinion piece lambasts Judge Denise Cote, the federal judge in charge of the Justice Department's antitrust suit against Apple, for being "abusive" and "shredding the separation of constitutional powers" by appointing and granting broad authority to antitrust monitor Michael Bromwich. Read More »