Suppose the police want to get illegal drugs off the streets. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them against walls, frisking them, ...
Once a constitutional principle is treated as negotiable for one group — Latino communities in this case — it becomes weaker for all of us.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable ...
Here’s a subject new to this column: The Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Before the U.S. Supreme Court in Barnes v.
What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be ...
The Constitution is the law of our land, the cornerstone of our government, the principles to which our military, our judges, ...
Last week, in an unsigned order issued without an explanation, and in direct defiance of the plain language of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, the Supreme Court of the United States ...
In September, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police.
Ruling a month after the Trump administration filed an “emergency” application, the majority didn’t bother to explain itself.
Last week, the Supreme Court gave federal agents the green light to geographically, racially and linguistically profile people while carrying out immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, and in doing so, it ...