Trump Reportedly Retained Hundreds of Documents That Were Marked As Classified
We still know almost nothing about their contents, which is relevant in assessing the decision to search Mar-a-Lago.
We still know almost nothing about their contents, which is relevant in assessing the decision to search Mar-a-Lago.
Although U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart is inclined to unseal the document, redactions demanded by the Justice Department could make it hard to understand.
Reinforcing the FBI's suspicions was the whole point of that document, which is likely to remain sealed.
Whatever threat it may have posed, the trove of government documents seized by the FBI does not reflect well on the former president's judgment.
The law has been abused to prosecute citizens for reasons other than spying. But there are better examples than Trump to highlight problems.
The former president thought his 2016 opponent should go to prison for recklessly endangering national security.
As the response to the Mar-a-Lago raid illustrates, Republicans are inconsistent in the other direction.
A mother-daughter arrest in Nebraska was fueled in part by unencrypted Facebook messages police accessed through a warrant.
Lethal drug raids in Louisville and Houston were based on fishy police affidavits that turned out to be fraudulent.
So far no one has been held criminally liable for the disastrous drug raid, which was based on a flimsy and falsified search warrant affidavit.
The Institute for Justice urges SCOTUS to renounce that open-ended exception to the Fourth Amendment.
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After the tragic shooting of Amir Locke, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has made changes to the controversial practice. But are they enough?
"This is such outrageous behavior by the FBI," a D.C. Circuit judge says, calling the agency's special treatment of rich people "deeply troubling."
That perplexing situation underlines the hazards of police tactics that aim to prevent violence but often have the opposite effect.
When you plug your phone into your car to listen to your favorite band or podcast, you give police a way to rummage around in your personal data without a warrant.
The former detective's trial should not obscure the responsibility of the drug warriors who authorized, planned, and executed the deadly raid.
Banning "no-knock" search warrants is not enough to prevent lethal confrontations between cops and people exercising the right to armed self-defense.
Ever wonder where people get the idea that police are thin-skinned bullies?
Regulators insist Fourth Amendment protections don’t apply to administrative searches.
The investigation of Trump aide Carter Page has exposed major problems with federal secret surveillance warrants.
With “keyword warrants,” anyone who queries certain terms on search engines will get caught in the surveillance dragnet.
More than 400 problems were found with 29 warrant requests, twice the number previously revealed.
"We are not eager—more the reverse—to print a new permission slip for entering the home without a warrant," declared Justice Kagan in Lange v. California.
An encryption back door will lead to abusive authoritarian surveillance—even if you present it as a way to stop child porn.
Regulating privacy protections would put the public at greater risk than criminals.
Three of the officers were denied qualified immunity, but accountability is a long way off.
The bill would limit petty seizures and require more reporting and oversight of no-knock raids.
Baltimore kept tabs on citizens' movement across 90 percent of the city, without a warrant, to investigate crimes.
Law enforcers have plenty of tools; they just want to paw through our data without effort or expense.
Fourth Amendment advocates win big in Lange v. California.
Two states have passed laws requiring court approval before the cops can use genetic genealogy services to track down a suspect.
"It makes me feel like the government is preying on the vulnerable and the weak to line their own pockets."
There will be no justice for Onree Norris.
Some of the changes may make a difference. Others, not so much.
State investigators say shooting justified because Andrew Brown Jr. drove toward law enforcement to escape arrest.
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A Messina, New York, police officer is under investigation after video showed him intentionally slamming a door into a car several times.
Section 702 is supposed to be used to snoop on spies and terrorists, not Americans.
Did the city's "policies, customs or practices," invite Fourth Amendment violations?