For reasons explained in my draft article, The Fourth Amendment After Chatrie, there is good reason to believe that the Supreme Court's June ruling in Chatrie v. United States will trigger a ...

The natural right to privacy is a fundamental human right that government needs to respect.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Big Win for Fourth Amendment Advocates, the Supreme Court Says 'Geofence Warrants' Count as a 'Search' The U.S. Supreme Court ...

These libertarians with their prattling on about freedom and rights. They can be so tiresome. Please stop with the high dudgeon! Here’s an example of one such “freedom” person writing about open-ended ...

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 ...

Suppose the police want to get illegal drugs off the streets. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them against walls, frisking them, and searching their belongings. They also force ...

I have posted a revised version of my draft paper, Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment. It adds a bunch of new cases, including the various opinions from the Fourth Circuit's en banc ruling in ...

Legal theory continues to lag behind the realities of modern technology, leaving Americans’ private data vulnerable to ...

We close our series on the new Roberts Court and restoration of the Constitution’s original understanding with the issue most distant from the Framing: the rise of a new high-tech world. We now hold ...

When can law enforcement officers enter a home without a warrant to address an emergency situation? This question has divided courts of years. In Case v. Montana, 607 U.S. ___ (2026), the Supreme ...