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KJP says NBD The letter’s signatories include: progressive outfits American Oversight and Demand Progress, the conservative Americans for Prosperity and R Street Institute and New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, among others. Endnotes

Florida governor and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott weigh in on election reform on The Ingraham Angle A liberal dark money group bankrolled by a Swiss foreign national is spending big on lobbying in favor of Democrats election overhauls, including H.R. 1, filings show. The Sixteen Thirty Fund, a fiscal sponsor and clearinghouse for dozens of left-wing groups and projects, has poured nearly $2 million into the efforts to sway senators on issues ranging from H.R.1 to D.C. statehood to the Voting Rights...

The Senate bill, which is identical to the House version introduced today, is supported by a broad coalition [2] of advocates from across the political spectrum, including:  American Civil Liberties Union, American Conservative Union, Americans for Prosperity, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Demand Progress, Due Process Institute, FreedomWorks, Government Accountability Project, Government Information Watch, Innocence Project, Justice Action Network, The Leadership Conferenc...

Progressives ramp up pressure on Bidens Wall Street cop after hiring fiasco POLITICO 2 hrs ago By Zachary Warmbrodt © Evan Vucci/AP Photo Gary Gensler rattled progressives by naming a veteran corporate defense lawyer, Alex Oh, to lead the agency’s policing of financial wrongdoing Sen. Elizabeth Warren in January praised Gary Gensler, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, as a “tenacious” Wall Street regulator. Now, after a tur...

Barre-Montpelier Times Argus A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders, has proposed banning police from buying access to user data from data brokers, including ones that “illegitimately obtained” their records. “The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act” is sponsored by 20 members of the U.S. Senate. The proposed act: ∫ Requires the government to get a court order to compel data brokers to disclose data — the same kind of court order ...

Share: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reported the resignation of Alex Oh as director of the Division of Enforcement after only five days on the job. What Happened: The SEC announcement of Oh’s departure only cited “personal reasons” for her abrupt exit. Oh worked for two decades at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison prior to joining the SEC. According to a Politico report, she was part of a reprimand issued on Monday by a federal judge for her conduc...

  FBI search vehicle 4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. New Legislation Prevents End-Run of Courts by Government Agencies Buying Americans’ Data; Reflects Supreme Court Rulings that D...

Massachusetts’ state government has long been one of the least transparent in the country. Want to know how your representative voted in committee on a crucial climate change or police reform bill? Good luck with that. There’s no requirement the information be made public. Curious about who testified before the committee before it took its top-secret vote? You’re going to have trouble with that one too. And many of the documents that are readily accessible to the public in other states - ...

Wed, 04/21/2021 - 1:56pm -- tim New Legislation Prevents End-Run of Courts by Government Agencies Buying Americans’ Data; Reflects Supreme Court Rulings that Digital is Different; Reps. Nadler and Lofgren to Introduce House Companion Vermont Business Magazine US Senators Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, Ron Wyden, D-Ore, and Rand Paul, R-Ky, and 17 other senators, today introduced a bill to put a stop to shady data brokers buying and selling Americans’ Constitutional rights. The Fourth Amendment...

Featured Video Hide The bill, the “Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act,” would also stop law enforcement and intelligence agencies from buying data on Americans if the data was obtained from a user’s account in ways like scraping, which would bar the government from buying data from Clearview AI. Advertisement Hide The sweeping bill touches on a number of privacy and surveillance issues and was introduced in both the Senate and the House of Repres...