Border agents are allowed to operate 100 miles inside the US. That should worry us

The agents in Portland were members of a special tactical unit with extra-legal powers. They’ve been doing this for decades
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/08/border-agents-us-force

The federal police in Portland don’t even understand what ‘arrests’ are - The Washington Post

The government cannot lawfully exercise its power of arrest if it doesn’t realize it is, in fact, arresting people in the first place.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/portland-fourth-amendment-arrests/2020/07/24/c7e9822c-cceb-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html

“The Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Apply Here” — U.S. Border Guards Arrest Arizona Immigrant Rights Volunteer - The Intercept

U.S. border officials arrested a human rights advocate, denying her access to an attorney when she accompanied an asylum-seeker to a border crossing.
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/09/asylum-border-humanitarian-aid/

Gorsuch and Thomas prove that if Trump gets another SCOTUS seat, they'll rewrite the law - Daily Kos

The Supreme Court's latest Fourth Amendment ruling, Byrd v. United States, should have been uneventful. All nine justices agreed that even someone who isn't the "authorized driver" of a rental car may assert Fourth Amendment protections when it comes to searching the car. But a concurring opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, laid the groundwork for a different outcome. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1764857

Sheriff: Trump Wants Us To Break The Law -- The Daily Beast

President Donald Trump's crackdown on undocumented immigrants has some sheriffs worried the White House is pushing them to break the law – demanding they violate the Fourth Amendment or face vilification from the commander-in-chief. ....
http://www.thedailybeast.com/sheriff-trump-wants-us-to-break-the-law

I'll Never Take My Phone on an International Flight Again—Neither Should You

You can’t hand over a device that you don’t have....
http://www.alternet.org/human-rights/ill-never-take-my-phone-international-flight-again-neither-should-you

Mitch McConnell wants to protect your Second Amendment rights, to hell with the Fourth

The very same day Mitch McConnell was using the excuse of Second Amendment rights for his vote to allow people on the terrorist watch list to buy a gun, he brought an amendment to the floor that would gut Americans' Fourth Amendment protections.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set up a vote late on Monday to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s authority to use a secretive surveillance order without a warrant to include email metadata and some browsing history information.

[…] The amendment would broaden the FBI’s authority to use so-called National Security Letters to include electronic communications transaction records such as time stamps of emails and the emails' senders and recipients.

It would do a hell of a lot more than that—it would allow the FBI to bypass the courts in getting your metadata....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1541040