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The Algocracy Agenda: How AI & The Deep State Are Digitizing Tyranny
“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world.…
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U.S. Supreme Court Deadlock Leaves Religious Charter School Debate—and Free Exercise Rights—in Limbo
WASHINGTON, DC — In a closely watched case with broad implications for religious liberty and the separation of church and…
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They’re Coming for Your Birthright: Citizenship as Spectacle, Transaction, or Privilege
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to…
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Supreme Court: Police Can No Longer Rely on ‘Moment-of-Threat’ Doctrine to Sidestep Scrutiny for Misconduct Leading to Use of Deadly Force
WASHINGTON, DC — In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a legal doctrine that helped shield police…
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Facing Court Losses Over Its Detention of Student Activists, Trump Administration Considers Suspending Habeas Corpus
BURLINGTON, Vt. — In the wake of a string of court challenges over its arrests, detentions and deportations of university…
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Trump Is Making America Constitutionally Literate—By Violating the Constitution
“Donald Trump ran on a platform of relentless, thoroughgoing rejection of the Constitution itself, and its underlying principle of democratic…
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Executive Orders, AI Tyranny, & 42 National Emergencies: Is the Constitution Dead? (Video)
In this interview with Collapse Life, civil liberties attorney John Whitehead reminds us just how we are sleepwalking our way to autocracy…
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Executive Overreach & The Erosion Of Constitutional Safeguards: When The Executive Branch Becomes Judge & Jury
The case of Perkins Coie LLP v. U.S. Department of Justice warns of the grave consequences that follow when the Executive Branch…
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Deporting Political Protesters Threatens Us All: Khalil v. Trump
At a time when non-citizens are being targeted and deported for engaging in lawful, nonviolent political speech protected under the…
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Martial Law Disguised as Law & Order: The Oldest Trick in the Authoritarian Playbook
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison We are being…
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Court Warns of ‘Totalitarian’ Overreach, Declares Trump’s Blacklisting of Law Firm Illegal as Civil Liberties Groups Expand Legal Challenge
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Warning that President Trump’s executive order retaliating against law firms, suppressing opposition and chilling lawful First Amendment activity “is…
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No One’s Speech Is Safe Under Trump Deportation Policy: Civil Liberties Advocates Sound Alarm Over Arrest of PhD Student for Political Views
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Warning that the U.S. government is weaponizing immigration enforcement to punish political dissent, The Rutherford Institute has…
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Home Invasions on the Rise: Constitution-Free Policing in Trump’s America
“One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle.”—James…
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Constitutional Attorneys Urge Action After Masked, Plainclothes ICE Agents at Courthouse Spark ‘Kidnapping’ Fears
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A chilling incident at the Albemarle County Courthouse has ignited alarm, prompting The Rutherford Institute to urge…
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How a President Becomes a Dictator: By Executive Order
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything…
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Executive Orders, AI Tyranny, & 42 National Emergencies: Is the Constitution Dead? (Video)
In this interview with Collapse Life, civil liberties attorney John Whitehead reminds us just how we are sleepwalking our way to autocracy…
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