Drunk Driving, Blood Draws, and the Fourth Amendment After Mitchell v. Wisconsin
The Supreme Court deals with the unconscious driver.
The Supreme Court deals with the unconscious driver.
Surrender the Fifth Amendment or the dog dies.
The Supreme Court has used this doctrine for many years, including in the recent gerrymandering decision. But it still doesn't actually make any sense.
Citations to nowhere, satanic cardigans, and untested rape kits.
A strange ambiguity about yesterday's decision in Rucho v. Common Cause
The Supreme Court was right to rule that the administration's rationale for adding a question about citizenship to the Census was bogus. But it would have done better to rule that inclusion of the question was beyond the scope of the federal government's enumerated powers.
As governments and law enforcement agencies rush to incorporate facial recognition tech, California lawmakers have a chance to slam on the brakes.
The NYPD is 100 percent bias-free, NYPD investigators claim.
Chief Justice Roberts' irked both Left and Right with his Census decision - encapsulating what we saw the entire SCOTUS term.
What the hell is going on with this state?
SCOTUS says it is constitutional for police to draw blood from unconscious drunk driving suspects.
Bill de Blasio is running for president, and police unions are chasing him.
Another day, another conflict between the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees in a criminal justice case.
The bill would turn law-abiding gun owners into felons for possessing a product that is almost never used in violent crimes.
Ron Wyden and Rand Paul team up to stop Border Patrol from snooping in your stuff without good reason.
Why the existing system violates due process.
A city official even vouched for Sheefy McFly, but police arrested him for resisting.
Nationally, 66 percent of police departments report seeing declining numbers of applications.
Plus: Migrant children removed from detention centers, wine comes before the Supreme Court, a sci-fi writer imagines a world without Section 230, and more
That result "may strike some as unfair," the court says, but it's what state law required at the time.
“The Court usually reads statutes with a presumption of rationality and a presumption of constitutionality.”
An interesting set of line-ups in today's Supreme Court opinions
The Roberts Court still overturns prior precedent at a lower rate than its post-War predecessors.
Spy networks, cyberattacks, and the price we pay for civilization.
A meticulous re-enactment of the misbegotten prosecution of the Central Park Five gets a lot right.
The high court ruled that prosecutor Doug Evans violated Flowers' constitutional rights when Evans sought to keep African-Americans off of the jury.
Booker would move the process away from prosecutors and into the White House.
A day of relatively small opinions from SCOTUS suggests big doctrinal developments may be on the horizon
Today's ruling in Gundy v. United States allows Congress to delegate to the executive broad power to create new criminal offenses. But there is hope the Court might reconsider Gundy in the future.
A new book explores how America's criminal justice system heaps debts on those who can't possibly pay.
When "almost anyone can be arrested for something," no one is safe.
"There is no situation in which this behavior is ever close to acceptable," said Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego.
The Trump appointee is not impressed by the logic of the "dual sovereignty" doctrine: "Really?"
The decision is a complicated ruling that potentially sets a dangerous precedent for the scope of federal power under the Constitution.
Frederick Turner was sentenced to a mandatory 40 years on nonviolent drug and firearm charges. He ended up in a high-security federal prison, and now he's dead.