
“Today’s vote means reforms to provide stronger Fourth Amendment protections from unwarranted searches will not happen and a filibuster can’t actually stop the scheduled vote. The USA RIGHTS Act is essentially dead, unless the full vote fails. (Spoiler: Since the renewal bill survived a cloture vote, it won’t fail.)”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/16/senate-votes-to-shut-down-rand-paul-fili
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