US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all

Who expected different? This is the sort of thing that once you give up, you're not getting back. We let fear and paranoia decide it was ok and the people we gave that freedom to are never giving it back, why would they when they were given exactly what they wanted.

My understanding is that there&#x27;s a carveout that prevents warrantless surveillance of members of Congress.<p>Which takes a special kind of cognitive dissonance to be like, &quot;This is fine for thee but not for me&quot;

What a red herring, the argument that there would be too many warrants to process. Build tech, hire judges.

To see which of your congressmen voted yea or nay on this bill so that you can write down in your notes who to vote in or out this November, see this senate.gov link:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.senate.gov&#x2F;legislative&#x2F;LIS&#x2F;roll_call_votes&#x2F;vote1182&#x2F;vote_118_2_00150.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.senate.gov&#x2F;legislative&#x2F;LIS&#x2F;roll_call_votes&#x2F;vote1...</a><p>This bill is an obvious violation of the 4th amendment of the U.S. Constitution.<p>In my state, all electors (votors) must swear the following Oath: “I do solomnly swear (or affirm) that I will protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of…”<p>It is my interpretation that anyone that votes for any of the yea-voters in the upcoming election would be a violation of that Oath to uphold the Constitution.

How is this legal? Congress doesn&#x27;t have the authority to void the Fourth Amendment.

Literally just fascist secret police, in real life.

Is the Senate expected to pass this blindly?

Embarrassing for the US, again.

Wyden needs to filibuster this. Come on obstruction babeh.

Land of the free &#x2F;s.

&gt; Friday morning, the holdouts fell in line – sending the Section 702 renewal bill to the House floor for a full vote<p>God party politics will be the death of us. Why even bother electing specific individuals at this point. How is this bill not abhorrent to more Republicans, and to wit how is this bill not fine with more Democrats?<p>In a saner world this bill should have split both parties on auth&#x2F;lib lines. It is truly a testament that we can make anything partisan along one specific ideological axis, even totally orthogonal issues.