Fourth Amendment

Civil Liberties

Grad Student Challenges Border Laptop Searches

J.D. Tuccille | 4.10.2012 1:19 PM

Politics

Reason Writers on MSNBC: Matt Welch Talks POTUS vs. SCOTUS, the Social-Darwinism Slur, and the Constitution-Shredding War on Crime on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show

Matt Welch | 4.10.2012 9:31 AM

Civil Liberties

U.S. Court Gives Thumbs-Up to Snoopy Checkpoints Near-ish the Border

J.D. Tuccille | 4.5.2012 2:45 PM

Politics

ACLU Says Police Often Obtain Cellphone Location Data Without Warrants

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2012 6:01 PM

Politics

SCOTUS Upholds Pre-Jail Strip Searches for Everyone, No Matter How Minor the Offense

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2012 4:50 PM

Politics

SCOTUS Will Consider Dogs' Reliability As Probable Cause Generators

Jacob Sullum | 3.30.2012 5:26 PM

Policy

Smells Like Multiple Fourth Amendment Violations

Jacob Sullum | 3.22.2012 3:17 PM

Politics

Should Police Need a Warrant to Search an Arrestee's Cellphone?

Jacob Sullum | 3.2.2012 3:10 PM

Politics

NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Encounters Have Septupled Since Bloomberg Took Office

Jacob Sullum | 2.14.2012 4:23 PM

Politics

Federal Jury Says Cops Can't Arrest People for Recording Police Encounters

Jacob Sullum | 1.30.2012 3:56 PM

Politics

Reason Writers on Freedom Watch: Matt Welch Talks Rand Paul & the TSA With Judge Napolitano

Matt Welch | 1.27.2012 10:42 AM

Politics

How GPS Tracking Threatens Privacy

The Supreme Court considers the 4th Amendment implications of new surveillance technologies.

Jacob Sullum | 1.25.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Sonia Sotomayor's Heartening Defense of Privacy

Jacob Sullum | 1.24.2012 3:41 PM

Politics

SCOTUS Rules That GPS Tracking Is a 'Search'

Jacob Sullum | 1.23.2012 12:02 PM

Politics

Franky Gets His Day in Court

Jacob Sullum | 1.12.2012 3:23 PM

Politics

Don't Come Sniffing Around Here Unless You Have a Warrant

Jacob Sullum | 1.4.2012 12:48 PM

Policy

Sir, Your Perfectly Legal Plants Smell Like Marijuana

Jacob Sullum | 12.27.2011 5:57 PM

Politics

Predator Drones in Domestic Law Enforcement

Brian Doherty | 12.12.2011 8:42 AM

Policy

Florida Drug Search Claims Flunk the Smell Test

Jacob Sullum | 12.8.2011 11:36 AM

Politics

NRA Joins ACLU in Urging SCOTUS to Let Victims of an Unconstitutional Gun Search Sue the Cops

Jacob Sullum | 12.7.2011 1:53 PM

Politics

'The Bill of Rights Is Not a Trick'

Jacob Sullum | 12.1.2011 10:44 AM

Politics

Why Bother Attaching Tracking Devices to Cars When People Voluntarily Carry Them Wherever They Go?

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2011 6:14 PM

Civil Liberties

Michigan Sheriff: Random Narcotics Checkpoints Are Totally Constitutional

Lucy Steigerwald | 10.21.2011 4:28 PM

Policy

NY State Senator Not Quite Sure Which Constitutional Amendment Doesn't Apply When Parents Go Looking for Guns in Their Daughters' Jewelry Boxes

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.3.2011 5:20 PM

Policy

Appeals Court Rules In Favor of Nude Body Scanners; Against Privacy Advocates and Other Decent Peoples

Mike Riggs | 7.15.2011 1:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Washington Attempts to Make us All Culpable for Online Child Pornography

Matt Welch | 7.12.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

No Right to Resist Rogue Cops in Indiana

Jacob Sullum | 5.18.2011 11:12 AM

Policy

This Area Is Certified Fourth Amendment-Free

Radley Balko | 2.18.2011 12:08 PM

Policy

Supreme Court To Decide If Smell of Pot, Suspicious Sounds Merit Warrantless Entry

Radley Balko | 1.13.2011 3:15 PM

Politics

California Supreme Court: Cell Phone Searches Don't Need a Warrant

Brian Doherty | 1.5.2011 12:56 PM

Policy

Electronic Surveillance: Good and Bad Sides

Brian Doherty | 11.18.2010 9:31 AM

Policy

10 Rules for Dealing with Police Now Free on YouTube

Radley Balko | 4.9.2010 1:15 PM

Policy

On Flexing Your Rights. Or At Least Humbly Attempting To Hold on to Them.

Radley Balko | 3.29.2010 12:36 PM

Policy

Sensible "Cyber War" Preparation, Or Just More Government Snooping?

Brian Doherty | 3.5.2010 5:33 PM

Civil Liberties

Police Seek Warrantless Searches of Smartphones

Ben Sanders | 2.19.2010 10:36 AM

Policy

Flexing Your Rights

Radley Balko | 12.9.2009 11:52 AM

Politics

Don't Mess With Ron Paul's Army

Matt Welch | 11.11.2009 12:01 PM