On the surface, Monday's Supreme Court ruling that keeps Lisa Cook in place as a Federal Reserve governor for now was a win for believers that the central bank works best when insulated from the day-to-day control of the president. The details aren't so clear. The big picture: The court punted on several key questions that will determine how much ability President Trump and his successors have to fire Fed governors. - Moreover, the decision was closer than many court watchers anticipated, with four of six conservative justices dissenting. - Another key ruling Monday grants the president broad latitude to fire heads of independent agencies that aren't the Fed, contrary to a 91-year-old precedent. It shows deep skepticism among the…
A judge has ordered the DHS to facilitate the return of a 20-year-old Honduran man with no criminal history after she found he was likely removed without due process.
A private surveillance network is raising serious Fourth Amendment concerns across America. Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based company, insists its cameras do not track people. But its license-plate readers, artificial-intelligence tools, and police training materials suggest otherwise. The company’s nationwide network now includes tens of thousands of cameras capable of recording vehicle locations and allowing police […] The post Flock Cameras Emerge as Serious Threat to Privacy Rights appeared first on StoneZone .
A private surveillance network is raising serious Fourth Amendment concerns across America. Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based company, insists its cameras do not track people. But its license-plate readers, artificial-intelligence tools, and police training materials suggest otherwise. The company’s nationwide network now includes tens of thousands of cameras capable of recording vehicle locations and allowing police to reconstruct weeks of travel history—often without a warrant. Activists with the citizen watchdog organization, DeFlock.org. have mapped more than 88,000 cameras, revealing just how widespread the system has become with the public largely unaware of how their country is morphing into a surveillance grid. Flock’s own…Open
Secret memos show that the White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants.
The main San Francisco court was one of the busiest in the country, hearing thousands of cases a year. It was also one of the courts most likely to grant an immigrants' asylum application.