1. Freedom to life (claiming the government has the power to assassinate American citizens without judicial review, and actually performing some assassinations.  Yes, the assholes killed were probably murdering terrorists, but depriving citizens of life without judicial review is not what our constitution permits).<p>2.  Not only renewing, but greatly expanding the Patriot Act in 2011.  You can look up the details online, but it&#x27;s expanded coverage on business records in particular is pretty grim for any civil libertarian.  This one hits just about every liberty enumerated in the Bill of Rights, except perhaps the 5th article.<p>3.  Egregious persecution of American citizen whistleblowers, going so far as to force down the plane of a foreign head of state in their attempts to capture one whistleblower.<p>4.  All the state surveillance of American citizens revealed by the Snowden whistleblowing, which is why it pissed them off so bad.<p>5.  Continuing egregious violations against constitutional limits on unreasonable search and seizure, particularly with respect to federal &quot;civil forfeiture&quot;, up 50%+ in money value in 2010, the last year for which I can find data [1].<p>If you really want, I&#x27;ll continue, but I&#x27;ll let others chip in. All this is pretty grim coming from a professor of constitutional law.  It makes me wonder what he really believes&#x2F;believed when he entered office.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drugwarfacts.org&#x2F;cms&#x2F;Forfeiture#sthash.G1c3wBkR.dpbs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drugwarfacts.org&#x2F;cms&#x2F;Forfeiture#sthash.G1c3wBkR.d...</a>