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New Legislation Prevents End-Run of Courts by Government Agencies Buying Americans’ Data; Reflects Supreme Court Rulings that Digital is Different; Reps. Nadler and Lofgren to Introduce House Companion
Vermont Business Magazine US Senators Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, Ron Wyden, D-Ore, and Rand Paul, R-Ky, and 17 other senators, today introduced a bill to put a stop to shady data brokers buying and selling Americans’ Constitutional rights.
The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act closes the legal loophole that allows data brokers to sell Americans’ personal information to law enforcement and intelligence agencies without any court oversight – in contrast to the strict rules for phone companies, social media sites and other businesses that have direct relationships with consumers.
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By Michael W. Chapman | April 15, 2021 | 9:31am EDT
U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)
(CNS News.com) Left-wing Democrats Sen. Ed Markey (Mass.), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), Rep. Hank Johnson (Ga.), and Rep. Mondaire Jones (N.Y.) introduced legislation today to expand the U.S. Supreme Court from 9 seats to 13, a step that many Republicans and conservatives have denounced as packing the court to help keep Democrats in power indefinitely.
The House Judiciary Committee, headed by Nadler, said in a press release, This bill would restore balance to the nation’s highest court after four years of norm-breaking actions by Republicans led to its current composition and greatly damaged the Court’s standing in the eyes of the American people.
Reparations advocates notched a historic victory this week when a House committee approved, for the first time, legislation to study whether Black Americans should receive restitution for slavery.Now those lawmakers want a vote on the floor.But while Democratic leaders in the last Congress had promised quick action on the reparations bill if it passed through the House Judiciary Committee, they're treading more carefully this year.Speaker.