The IRS Says Your Digital Life Is Not Your Property
A Supreme Court case could determine whether Americans own their digital data—or whether the government can take that information without a warrant.
A Supreme Court case could determine whether Americans own their digital data—or whether the government can take that information without a warrant.
Campus protests against Israel have revived debates over the limits of First Amendment protections.
The Wisconsin judge is charged with obstruction of justice and concealing an undocumented alien to prevent his arrest.
It’s a small step in the right direction for self-defense rights.
Earlier this month, 4,700 foreign students were at risk of detainment after ICE inexplicably terminated their visa records.
The memo says "Alien Enemies" aren't subject "to a judicial review of the removal in any court of the United States."
Small businesses and a dozen states have filed a pair of lawsuits challenging Trump's authority to impose tariffs on board games, clothes, and lots of other things.
An immigration judge found the official document initiating Kseniia Petrova’s deportation to be legally deficient. She remains in detention, unable to further her cancer research.
The temporary restraining order allows time to challenge burdensome reporting requirement.
A federal judge in Colorado rules against the Trump administration.
To remain independent, institutions of higher education should end their reliance on taxpayer money.
Plus: Democrats visit El Salvador, Taiwan invasion possibilities, Hayek on rule of law, and more...
In Justice Abandoned, a law professor argues that the Court got these key decisions wrong.
Sentencing defendants based on acquitted conduct violates basic notions of justice.
Several businesses harmed by Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs have filed a lawsuit challenging his use of emergency economic powers.
No, the Supreme Court did not give Trump free rein in the case of a wrongly deported man.
Trump lost on his most aggressive claims of executive power for the second time in a week.
The Supreme Court did not answer two of the biggest legal questions raised by Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.
The Supreme Court seems likely to agree that a member of the National Labor Relations Board may be fired by the president at will.
"It appears that access to this court was improperly denied," an attorney for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press says.
Alleged criminal aliens may face legal punishment. But only after receiving due process of law.
Trump wants to purge the federal bench of judges who disagree with him. Thomas Jefferson did too, and it didn't work out.
An unconstitutional act is still unconstitutional even if lots of people support it.
The move is an escalation of the White House's attempt to claim an unchallengeable and unreviewable amount of power.
The judge ruled that Donald Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's executive orders targeting "gender ideology" can't change the fact that drag performance is expressive conduct under the First Amendment.
Afghan legal professionals face deadly threats, but a federal injunction and a last-minute boarding letter helped one family escape. Thousands more remain in limbo.
We can't be sure, and that's why due process matters.
"The unique nature of each human embryo means that an equal division cannot conveniently be made," writes a Virginia judge.
The judge found that the agency's "unusual secrecy" and "substantial authority" make it subject to public record laws.
If enacted, the order would weaken digital security for Apple users throughout the U.K.
The authors of a picture book about two male penguins raising a chick together argue excluding their book from school libraries violates their free speech rights.
“I cannot ignore Congress’ detailed framework for refugee admissions and the limits it placed on the president’s ability to suspend the same,” said Judge Jamal Whitehead.
Whether or not a reasonable police officer violates clearly established law when he declines to check the features and address of his target house before raiding it is thus still up for debate.
Despite severe risks and without a crime committed, a Minnesota judge authorized doctors to forcibly administer electroconvulsive therapy—while barring key witnesses from the hearing.
Vice President J.D. Vance believes presidents can ignore the courts in some situations. Are we heading for a constitutional crisis?
Local news reports detail how Polk County, Minnesota, charges drivers and petty offenders with drug-free zone violations like no other county in the state.
“I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is,” said Judge John C. Coughenour.
Robert Roberson was sentenced to death based on outdated and largely discredited scientific evidence.
A unanimous Supreme Court decision established as much in 1965.
His last-minute acts of clemency invite Trump and future presidents to shield their underlings from the consequences of committing crimes in office.
In a federal lawsuit, artists say their nonfungible tokens should be treated like physical art.
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a Texas case that could have major ramifications across the country—including, perhaps, the end of anonymity online.
The Nevada Highway Patrol exceeded its legal authority when it seized nearly $90,000 in cash from Stephen Lara in 2023 and then handed the case to the DEA.
Five "traffickers" arrested for responding to an undercover cop's sex ad are challenging their convictions in the state's high court.
Courts block laws regulating algorithms and online porn.
A local government gave ownership of Kevin Fair's Nebraska house—and all of its value—to a private investor, in a practice known as home equity theft.
Media investigations found over 3 million active license suspensions in the state.
The wrongful death lawsuit says Randall Adjessom came out of his bedroom with a gun when Mobile police broke down his family's door in a predawn raid, but when he realized they were cops, he put his hands in the air.
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