The FBI Director Kash Patel sparked alarm among critics on the internet after the recent U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee ...

It’s been a few years since the Supreme Court heard a major Fourth Amendment case. That will change next month when the justices hear oral arguments in Chatrie v. United States on the government’s use ...

A crucial question of Fourth Amendment law has recently divided courts: When government agents conduct a digital scan through a massive database, how much of a "search" occurs? The issue pops up in ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is often an outspoken supporter of the Second Amendment. But this week, the sheriff is wading into debate over a different constitutional right — the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the 4th Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures ...

Technology continues to advance, but the law cannot always keep up with it. One of the biggest areas of controversy involves tracking devices, such as Global Positioning System and cell phone locators ...

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 ...

The Biden administration has announced its opposition to the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act ahead of Wednesday’s vote on the bill. The House is scheduled to have a stand-alone vote on Wednesday ...

Part of the Murthy v. Missouri challengers' claim is that the First Amendment bans the government from even "substantially encouraging" private entities to block user speech. And as I noted in the ...

The circuit split might just persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the matter, breaking its now six-year hiatus from hearing Fourth Amendment cases. In the span of two months, the Fourth and ...

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Dean Sophia Lee recently published an article in The University of Chicago Law Review about the Fourth Amendment rights to privacy. Her 90-page article ...