The Senate is moving this week to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for three more years. It's time to limit the government's power to read your emails, texts, and phone calls without ever getting a warrant.

Since 2013, we have argued under both Democratic and Republican administrations, that the plain language of the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant before the government seizes or searches the communications of U.S. persons. Last year, a federal court agreed. But even with this ruling, the fight isn't over. The intelligence community, the President, and the captured Intelligence Committees of Congress are working hand in glove to prevent changes to FISA that would require a warrant.

Incredibly, the President has proposed as the new Director of National Intelligence somebody whose only qualification seems to be his willingness to abuse government systems to go after the President's enemies -- which is exactly what this power of warrantless searches makes possible. FISA has been and can be used to spy on innocent Americans for nothing more than exercising their Constitutional rights.

Requiring a warrant would be popular as well as right - over 75% of Americans support it, on left and right. Despite the popular will, the CIA and FBI fight tooth and nail against warrant reforms to FISA. What would amount to a minor inconvenience for these intelligence agencies is a fundamental protection for us, so we must continue to fight back.

Please call and write to your Senator today, and tell them they should oppose any reauthorization of FISA that doesn't require the government to get a warrant. Instead, they should support proposals with a warrant requirement like the bipartisan "SAFE Act," authored by the Chair and Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee. If you want to get into details, your Senator should vote as follows this week: "NO on the Foreign Intelligence Accountability Act, NO on cloture, and NO on the Thune amendment in the nature of a substitute."

You can find your Senator's phone number at https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm.

Thank you so much for standing up for your privacy rights and the Fourth Amendment today!