Fourth Amendment Caucus

Constitution, FISA, warrants and snooping In the next few days, Congress will vote on whether and how to renew a controversial part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that has resulted in the collection of thousands of Americans’ private communications — without probable cause or a warrant.

📺LIVE NOW: The House Judiciary Committee is marking up the USA Liberty Act, a bill that reauthorizes Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Representative Ted Poe and Representative Zoe Lofgren will be introducing an amendment to improve this act, ensuring that the bill upholds the Fourth Amendment and ends the warrantless backdoor searches of Americans' calls, emails, texts and other communications.

Read more about the amendment here: http://bit.ly/2yh6O27

Markup of H.R. 3989 and H.R. 170 Learn more: http://judiciary.house.gov Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/housejudiciary Twitter: https://twitter.com/HouseJudiciary

Yesterday we rolled out the Fourth Amendment Caucus providing a new, bipartisan forum for ideas, organization, and strategy as we fight to protect the Constitution and the American people’s privacy.

Reps. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), and dozens of their colleagues responded to a letter from Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper that failed to address a bipartisan request for a briefing to resolve questions raised by recent reports that Yahoo had searched all its users’ incoming emails at the federal government’s request.

Representatives renew demand for briefing on Yahoo email searches after inadequate response from administration - Latest News - Fourth Amendment Caucus Representatives renew demand for briefing on Yahoo email searches after inadequate response from administration Oct 28 2016 Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence ignore briefing request WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reps. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), and dozens of their colleag...

Thanks to those that came out for Hacking the World: Changes in the Rules of Criminal Procedure today! Rule 41 is a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure that governs when judges issue warrants. On December 1st, absent action from Congress, a change will go into effect that will dramatically expand the authority of the government to hack into computers.