
What the 2024 Section 702 Renewal Actually Changed About US Surveillance
The RISAA extended the warrantless program for two years — and quietly narrowed the FBI's rules while widening who can be searched.
Constitutional litigation followed through the courts: voting access, privacy, speech, due process and equal protection, with holdings quoted accurately.

The RISAA extended the warrantless program for two years — and quietly narrowed the FBI's rules while widening who can be searched.

Mandatory life without parole for minors has been unconstitutional since 2012, retroactive since 2016, and discretionary since 2021 — three cases that drew today's sentencing map.

A 2024 rule set a firm technical standard for state and local government websites; a 2026 extension pushed compliance back a year without changing what the standard demands.

Public records laws decide release state by state, and the gap between a California 45-day clock and a North Carolina court order is where most footage fights happen.

The 2026 decision in Louisiana v. Callais rewired the Gingles framework, demanding evidence of intentional race-based map-drawing — and the vote-dilution lawsuit is being rebuilt around it.

The Supreme Court's 2024 test turns on state authority and official use, so the same post can be state action from one account and private speech from another.