Federal law enforcement’s ability to take phones at the border is being challenged in court. The post The Government Faces High-Stakes Search-and-Seizure Challenges in Virginia appeared first on The American Conservative .
Law The Government Faces High-Stakes Search-and-Seizure Challenges in Virginia Federal law enforcement’s ability to take phones at the border is being challenged in court. (PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images) Two cases in the Eastern District of Virginia—a court regarded as one of the most deferential to executive branch concerns regarding national security—are testing the federal government’s authority to seize and search Americans’ phones when they re-enter the country from abroad. In the first, decided July 15, a federal judge ruled that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents had violated the Fourth…Open
The president should boldly initiate a “peace race” with Tehran. The post How Trump Can Break the Iran Logjam appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs How Trump Can Break the Iran Logjam The president should boldly initiate a “peace race” with Tehran. Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images Time to face an uncomfortable truth: America lost the Iran War. It’s a development not only discomfiting but world-historical, marking the pitiful conclusion of American primacy and the “U.S.-led international order.” President Donald Trump is in a bind. Escalating the war in hopes of changing the outcome would worsen its deleterious effects and almost certainly fail to force Iranian…Open
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