Michael D. Morrison
Mississippi’s leaders should be chosen by Mississippians, not by people who will never have to live with the results How are we supposed to choose the people who lead this state when not one of them knocks on the door? There was a time when a candidate for the
accountability
The More Difficult Flock Camera Discussion Begins After the Data Has Been Collected In my first discussion, Take the Cameras Down, I focused on the rapid expansion of automatic license plate readers and the constitutional concerns created when surveillance cameras begin appearing throughout our communities. The more I have studied
civil rights
When government gains more power to detain before conviction, the presumption of innocence begins to lose its meaning. For me, the debate over Tennessee Amendment 1 keeps coming back to one basic principle: innocent until proven guilty. There are dangerous defendants and serious cases, and the criminal justice system already
abuse
History has already tested what happens when government takes control of resources and production. The results are on the record. Turn on the television, scroll through social media, or listen to candidates running for office today and you will hear the same promises repeated over and over again: free healthcare,
abuse
A federal judge just ruled the government cannot vacuum up everyone's phone data to find one suspect. It is not an isolated ruling. It is the same pattern I wrote about earlier this week when traffic cameras sold as convenience quietly became warrant-free bulk surveillance networks. Once
Arrest
Traffic cameras were sold as convenience. What they've become is a warrant-free surveillance network — and the Fourth Amendment doesn't have an exception for technology. Traffic cameras were sold as convenience. What they've become is a warrant-free surveillance network — and the Fourth Amendment
abuse
Before Americans hand the government their ownership and their freedom, they ought to look at the last country that did — and at what it looks like now. How does one of the most prosperous nations in the hemisphere end up in the dark, standing in line for eggs, watching its
Arrest
The real question isn’t capitalism versus socialism. It’s whether the citizen still controls the government — or whether the government has quietly begun to control the citizen. Why are so many politicians trying to change the political system that made America the freest and most successful nation in the
constitutional bail rights
There are books we read simply to learn what happened in the past, and then there are books that force us to think about what is happening around us right now. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense belongs in the second category. Published in January 1776, it was not written as
Socialism
A fireside chat about the socialist agenda, the wealth already leaving, and what history says comes next. I want to set the articles and the statistics aside for a few minutes and just talk with you, the way you’d talk with a friend over a cup of coffee. No