DHS Secretary Kristi Noem defended the department’s authority to enter private homes using “administrative immigration warrants,” which flies in the face of the Constitution.

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the 4th Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police. When the court stayed the district court’s decision in Noem vs. Vasquez ...

U.S. District Judge Joseph E. Goodwin ordered the immediate release of petitioner Anderson Jesus Urquilla-Ramos, who was “arrested abruptly and without warning by a group of masked men purporting to ...

A recent New York court case upheld a murder conviction despite claims that DNA evidence used violated the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights. The case highlights ongoing legal questions about ...

In September, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police. When the court stayed the district court’s decision in Noem v. Vasquez ...

Durham City Council passed a resolution establishing Fourth Amendment workplaces. The resolution directs city departments to follow constitutional search protections. Immigration enforcement actions ...

Here’s a subject new to this column: The Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Before the U.S. Supreme Court in Barnes v.

The right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure had an up-and-down sort of year at the U.S. Supreme Court. Back in May, the Court delivered a 9–0 decision that left civil libertarians ...

I'm very pleased to say that the Kindle version of my new book, The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World, is now available for sale. The ...

In an opinion that seems carefully crafted to achieve unanimity rather than break new ground, the court yesterday unsurprisingly and unanimously rejected the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th ...