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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20211215-142643-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/os3-hollow-promise/ A Hollow Promise - 20 Years Of Constitutional Erosion In the Name Of Counter-Terrorism Fox Cahn, Albert Enzer, Evan eng 2021-12-13 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 surveillance USA Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Throughout the post-9/11 period, we’ve seen the courts fail to check the growth of the surveillance state, inviting and sanctioning new abuses. But we do see reason for hope. The expansion of the surveillance state is increasingly taking center stage in American political discourse. While it’s unclear if America’s political, legal, and constitutional systems will ever fully recover from the post-9/11 moment, it is clear that only mass political movement will be able to edge back us from the precipice of authoritarianism and reassert constitutional checks and the rule of law.