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PSA: Unlike the soundly unconstitutional measures that followed 9/11 (eg:bulk warrantless surveillance), Covid measures sunset. That is all. Thank you for your

• goalieca 5y ago
  The patriot act kept being extended until new laws finally came along. According to Wikipedia > It contains many sunset provisions beginning December 31, 2005, approximately four years after its passage. Before the sunset date, an extension was passed for four years which kept most of the law intact. In May 2011, President Barack Obama signed the PATRIOT Sunset Extensions Act of 2011, which extended three provisions.[3] These provisions were modified and extended until 2019 by the USA Freedom Act, passed in 2015.[4] In 2020, efforts to extend the provisions were not passed by the House of Representatives.[5]