| Privacy Advocates Push Dems To Do Something About Warrantless Surveillance A growing coalition of political and civil society groups is pushing the new Democratic-majority Congress to curb the executive branch's warrantless surveillance powers once they take over in January. Trump officials and even some Democrats, meanwhile, are encouraging Republicans to renew those powers during the lame duck session, making it more difficult for a bluer Congress to add guardrails to those powers next year. |