Interesting… am I reading this correctly?🤔
Trumps EO about restoring freedom of speech appears to backwardly affect the Patriot Act or any similar legislation that allows government surveillance on its citizens
For example, court rulings on privacy and Fourth Amendment rights could redefine what constitutes “lawful surveillance, potentially restricting or expanding government capabilities.”
—— read that here
If true.. no Government agency or taxpayers resources can no longer be used to unconstitutionally abridge not just free speech, but our privacy…
Trumps EO about restoring freedom of speech appears to backwardly affect the Patriot Act or any similar legislation that allows government surveillance on its citizens
For example, court rulings on privacy and Fourth Amendment rights could redefine what constitutes “lawful surveillance, potentially restricting or expanding government capabilities.”
—— read that here
If true.. no Government agency or taxpayers resources can no longer be used to unconstitutionally abridge not just free speech, but our privacy…
There are a great many interesting features of Trump's Day One EOs, memoranda, etc... but none more interesting than this, IMO.
"In joining the Union, the States agreed to surrender much of their sovereignty and join the Union in exchange for the Federal Government’s promise in Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, to “protect each of [the States] against Invasion.” I have determined that the current state of the southern border reveals that the Federal Government has failed in fulfilling this obligation to the States and hereby declare that an invasion is ongoing at the southern border, which requires the Federal Government to take measures to fulfill its obligation to the States."
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/guaranteeing-the-states-protection-against-invasion/
Archived: https://archive.ph/ImWdT
"In joining the Union, the States agreed to surrender much of their sovereignty and join the Union in exchange for the Federal Government’s promise in Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, to “protect each of [the States] against Invasion.” I have determined that the current state of the southern border reveals that the Federal Government has failed in fulfilling this obligation to the States and hereby declare that an invasion is ongoing at the southern border, which requires the Federal Government to take measures to fulfill its obligation to the States."
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/guaranteeing-the-states-protection-against-invasion/
Archived: https://archive.ph/ImWdT
The White House
Guaranteeing The States Protection Against Invasion
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
Spain's leftist PM Sánchez has called on the world "to rebel against the threat to democracy" posed by the "ultra-right wing American billionaire Silicon Valley techno-caste"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/spain-calls-world-fight-against-135617228.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/spain-calls-world-fight-against-135617228.html
Yahoo News
Spain calls on world to fight against Trump’s ‘Silicon Valley techno-caste’
Spain’s Left-wing prime minister has called on the world to rebel against the threat to democracy posed by what he called the “Silicon Valley techno-caste”.