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What Does the Supreme Court’s Cell Phone Privacy Ruling Say About NSA Surveillance?, today at 12 p.m. PT (3 p.m. ET)

Today we’ll discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling in Riley v. California (joined with United States v. Wurie), in which the Court held that a government agent may not peruse the data held on a cell phone as part of a warrantless “search incident to arrest.” In order to search data on a cell phone, the government agent would need either to get a warrant, or to search pursuant to another exception to the warrant requirement (e.g., exigent circumstances). We’ll discuss the ruling itself and also its possible implications for the cases on which I have my primary focus: those challenging the NSA’s bulk metadata collection program.

We’ll also discuss a lot more–see Program Notes, below, for all the stories, etc., we plan to discuss.

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Program Notes

A Brief Response to Peter Schwartz on Edward Snowden

Riley v. California

“Digital Evidence and the New Criminal Procedure” — 10 Years Later

Supreme Court Narrows President’s Recess-Appointment Powers

DC Circuit strikes down DC tour guide licensing law

Report: Polish minister calls US ties worthless HT Rob Abiera

Obama Proposes $500 Million to Aid Syrian Rebels

Parents, teachers, education board members ask Oklahoma state Supreme Court to throw out repeal of Common Core HT Rob Abiera

White House Press Secretary: ‘We’re Not Just Going To Sit Around And Wait’ For Congress To Write Laws HT Bosch Fawstin

Report: Mexican Military Chopper Crosses Into US, Shoots At Border Agents

Emails: IRS official sought audit of GOP senator

Culture can help tame eminent domain abuse HT Rob Abiera

Technology Helps Customers and Innovators Ignore Regulators Who Target Uber and Lyft HT Rob Abiera

Fact Check: The New York Times “The Corporate Daddy”

New York’s Ban on Big Sodas Is Rejected by Final Court HT Bosch Fawstin

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Snowden Was Right to Fear That Nothing Would Change, Today at 12 p.m. PT (3 p.m. ET)

The title of today’s show was inspired by a video assignment I got early this week but, as you’ll see, my point was unfortunately proven again by the latest news about Obama’s surveillance state. See the link to that story below, along with all the others on a variety of topics that we plan to discuss today.

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Program Notes

The Jezabels on Tour

The Jezabels on iTunes

The Jezabels on Amazon

Obama To Let Feds Trawl Personal Financial Data For ‘Crimes’ HT MaryAnn DeRaad via Facebook

Apple praised for plan to undermine extensive system that secretly tracks customers Posted on Don’t Let It Go Unheard page on Facebook

Hillary Avoids Press: I Have ‘Deal’ Not to Answer Questions

ABC News’s Diane Sawyer destroys Hillary Rodham Clinton on Benghazi

Obama: U.S. must stop “jihadists” in Iraq and Syria, and finance and train military forces from other countries to fight them

Breaking: Obama finds out about Iraq crisis from the newspaper HT Bosch Fawstin

BRUCE: Iraq, the Taliban 5 and Hillary Clinton

Cantor upset in Virginia GOP primary by Tea Party-backed challenger HT Tammy Bruce

Dave Brat and Ayn Rand on Rights and Government

The Long March Through the Republican Party

Chris Matthews: “Looking Down Our Noses At The Tea Party Has Got To Stop”

The Slow and Glorious Death of America’s Worst School System

CBS’s ‘Good Wife’ Ridicules Ayn Rand’s Books as ‘Awful’ with ‘a 12-Year-Old’s View of the World’

Paul Krugman: Climate Denialism is Ayn Rand’s Fault HT Todd, show supporter, who sent related story via email

3 Reasons Why Bulletproof Coffee is a Bad Idea HT Chip Joyce via Facebook

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Another “Year of Action” in the failed “War on Poverty”? Discuss this and more with us today at 12 p.m. PT (3 p.m. ET)

The number of Americans in the work force is the lowest it’s been since the 1970s. Obama’s answer to this and other economic woes? A “Year of Action on Poverty”. We’ll discuss why this is immoral in addition to why it won’t work, just as the War on Poverty has failed for decades. See program notes, below, for links to all the stories, etc., we plan to discuss. (Of course we will discuss the Chris Christie scandal, too.)

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Program Notes:

Crony Fascism?

Liberals’ Ten Commandments (Post-9/11)

The Obamacare nightmare continues: “13,000 Obamacare Applicants Have No Records With Health Insurers”

Whole30

Chris Christie facing uncertain political future after ‘Bridgegate’ scandal

A Chris Christie News Sandwich

WSJ: Christie and the IRS

NSA makes final push to retain most mass surveillance powers

A “What’s Good for the Goose…” News Sandwich

Number of Americans looking for work at lowest level since 1970s

Obama promises ‘year of action’ on poverty in White House speech

Cruz: All of America Needs to be a Real “Promise Zone”

War on Poverty at 50 — Despite Trillions Spent, Poverty Won

Sen. Durbin to GOP: Put down Ayn Rand books

(HT Jonathan Hoenig)

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