What Critics of the FBI's Clinton Investigation Get Right
The examination of Huma Abedin's emails was legally justified, but it could have been faster and quieter.
The examination of Huma Abedin's emails was legally justified, but it could have been faster and quieter.
Citizens forced to comply with unconstitutional stops get gift cards.
The state is also disbanding the interdiction team responsible for the traffic stop.
If Trump makes good on his many threats to curtail liberty, there will be resistance.
What did the Union of Concerned Scientists know and when did it know it?
Amid debate over encryption access, feds try to just sneak right through.
But what about Fourth Amendment cases?
People's homes and businesses threatened unless they sign away rights.
The officer thought Amanda Houghton's unsteadiness was suspicious enough to justify handcuffs and a chest pat-down.
2015 militarized raid resulted in "fifth-degree drug possession." That's the lowest drug charge possible.
SCOTUS will hear oral arguments this week in Manuel v. City of Joliet.
FBI numbers refute his portrait of a nation besieged by violent thugs.
It's a good idea and the right thing to do.
The company insists forcing it to be liable for its hosts' misbehavior violates the Communications Decency Act, and forcing it to collect and deliver information on hosts to city violates Stored Communications Act.
The Justice Dept. doesn't think we need to know when they're looking at info about us.
Does the Fourth Amendment protect against unreasonable searches before the fact?
Reasonable suspicion of marijuana smuggling requires more than living in a state that allows medical or recreational use.
The liberal jurist was born on this day in 1938.
Justice Dept. report on Baltimore Police shows little respect for the Fourth Amendment.
Keep your ice cream, and I'll keep my freedom.
After a dog supposedly alerted to her at a border crossing, she endured six hours of fruitless body cavity searches.
The infamous concept of 'balance' rears its head.
Cops and prosecutors continue to put unjustified faith in notoriously unreliable field kits.
On immigration, surveillance, torture, and press freedom, Trump's ideas are not just bad-they're unconstitutional.
Unreliable field kits result in false convictions as well as false accusations.
Coalition of 25 bipartisan lawmakers organizes against unwarranted surveillance and data collection.
The state's top court rules that the odor of plants or burnt bud provides probable cause "in most circumstances."
Justice Sotomayor emerges as an outspoken Fourth Amendment defender.
But SCOTUS does allow warrantless DUI breath tests incident to arrest.
The Supreme Court issues its decision in Utah v. Strieff.
Senate amendments attempt to increase government snooping authority.
The FBI thinks the constitutional right to privacy is a pain in the neck and they'd prefer to do without it.
The student is challenging a local ordinance and a state law for being in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Ruling overturns panel decision in favor of privacy rights.
They searched her body cavities for drugs, which they did not find.
Owners say the officers, who were serving a drug warrant, also killed two other dogs who posed no threat.
Prosecutors tried to drop the forfeiture case, but the judge would not let them.
New Jersey state troopers said declining to answer a question is a crime.
Determined to arrest John Livingston for assaulting his pride, Deputy Nicholas Kehagias ended up shooting him dead.
The USA Freedom Act provides cover for unconstitutional searches of citizens.
Current federal law treats online communications stored after 180 days as abandoned.
SCOTUS hears arguments in Birchfield v. North Dakota.
Supreme Court weighs constitutional rights against law enforcement powers.
A lawsuit by a Pennsylvania woman describes a humiliating five-hour ordeal that discovered nothing.
Ruling establishes that people have expectation of physical location privacy.
The Supreme Court nominee's deference to government should disturb progressives as well as conservatives.