Category: brennan center for justice

Emergency Powers Granted to Presidents Are Unconstitutional: Brennan Center for Justice

A portion of the pres­id­en­tial emer­gency action docu­ments, or PEAD—wide-ranging powers granted to the executive branch during times of emergency—have been disclosed using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), shedding light on some of the powers that can be exercised by American presidents. PEADs, first drafted during the Cold War era under Pres­id­ent Dwight Eisen­hower,…


LAPD Used Fake Social Media Accounts to Spy on Users: Documents

Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers used fake online personas to monitor social media users, and at one point considered employing tools that critics say would lead to law enforcement profiling innocent people, according to recently revealed government documents. The documents, released by the Brennan Center for Justice following an open records request with the…