‘I Want To Play A Brief Video’: James Walkinshaw Flips The Script On GOP in ICE hearing

During a House Oversight Committee hearing titled "Amnesty and Chaos: Abuse of U.S. Immigration Policy," Representative James Walkinshaw (D-VA) gave his Republican colleagues an example of "chaos" by playing a video of ICE agents illegally entering the home of a U.S. citizen without a judicial warrant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVweCTo_X8U 

US Congress passes 10-day extension of surveillance law amid Republican infighting

“The shameful midnight smash-and-grab attempt to steal away Americans’ privacy rights failed,” said Jake Laperruque, deputy director of the security and surveillance project at the Center for Democracy and Technology. “Surveillance boosters tried to sneak a sham proposal through in the dead of night because they know they’ve lost the substance of this debate.” The only way forward, he said, was a warrant rule that will “close the backdoor search loophole and protect Americans from surveillance abuse”...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/congress-fisa-extension-warrantless-surveillance-law

 

'The Constitution ISN'T an inconvenience': House Dem stresses the need for ICE reform

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/owA0R4tpcms

 

Senate Democrats float DHS changes in shutdown stalemate - Live Updates - POLITICO

Democrats are seeking new limits on the use of warrants and other changes to immigration enforcement...

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/28/congress/democrats-dhs-minnesota-shutdown-00753256 

 

D.C. residents sue Trump administration over immigration arrests - The Washington Post

Four D.C. residents and an immigrant rights group claim in a lawsuit that ICE was unlawfully arresting people the agency perceived to be Latino without warrants and probable cause...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/09/25/dc-ice-arrests-lawsuit-trump/

 

GOP's "deep state" hypocrisy: They're shocked by Flynn case, but cool with warrantless searches | Salon.com

Republicans stage massive seizures about routine intelligence-gathering, then vote to let the FBI see your browser
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/14/gops-phony-outrage-on-flynn-unmasking-exposed-senate-votes-down-restriction-on-warrantless-search/

Mitch McConnell Moves to Expand Bill Barr’s Surveillance Powers

Days after the Justice Department controversially dropped charges against Mike Flynn, Senate GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is set to expand a highly politicized Justice Department’s surveillance authority during a vote this week to renew the 2001 PATRIOT Act. https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-moves-to-expand-bill-barrs-surveillance-powers

FBI Got Warrants for ‘Unite the Right’ Organizer Jason Kessler, Antifa Activists

The documents show the feds launched a wide-ranging investigation into both sides of the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-got-warrants-for-unite-the-right-organizer-jason-kessler-antifa-activists