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  • NSA Leaker Snowden Location Unknown, White House Chief Says

    White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said that he doesn’t know the whereabouts of Edward Snowden. The last known location of the admitted U.S. intelligence leaker was in Hong Kong.

  • Napolitano Calls for Defeat of Amendment on Border Security

    Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano urged Senate rejection of an amendment to delay pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants until the U.S. has “full operational control” of its border, saying in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend, that the proposal is “the wrong way to go” in a bill to revise immigration law.

  • Orban Constitution Threatens Hungary Laws, Experts Says

    Hungary’s new constitution, which consolidates Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s power, threatens the rule of law in the European Union member state, a panel of experts said.

  • U.S. Surveillance Court Won’t Stop Secret Ruling Release

    The secret U.S. court that rules on surveillance requests from intelligence agencies said it won’t stand in the way of an activist group’s lawsuit seeking the release of one of its nonpublic opinions.

  • Hungary Rejects Democracy Criticism as Commission Meets

    Hungary’s government rejected criticism of its new constitution even before European legal experts met today to approve an opinion that the European Union executive said Prime Minister Viktor Orban must respect.

  • How Rand Paul Can Take On the NSA

    Senator Rand Paul is itching to challenge the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s surveillance practices before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the American Civil Liberties Union has already filed such a suit. Justice Sonia Sotomayor might be glad to see them both there.

  • Orban Offers Concessions to EU to Defuse Hungary Concerns

    Hungary offered to modify its new constitution to address some of the European Union’s concerns as Prime Minister Viktor Orban seeks to defuse criticism that his consolidation of power threatens the rule of law.

  • Routine DNA Testing After Arrest Upheld by Top U.S. Court

    States can routinely collect DNA samples from people arrested for a serious crime, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled, limiting privacy rights and giving police a powerful investigative tool for solving old crimes.

  • New York Cabbie Says GPS Tracking Used to Punish Drivers

    New York City’s taxi commission was accused in a lawsuit of violating the constitutional rights of cabbies by using the global positioning system to track their movements.

  • Florida Employee Drug Testing Must Be Reviewed: Court

    Specific government job categories must be considered for mandatory drug testing in Florida, an appeals court concluded in a ruling that said a judge went too far in blocking enforcement of across-the-board public employee screening ordered by the state’s governor.

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