Suppose the police want to get illegal drugs off the streets. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them ...

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.

Not all searches are considered “unreasonable” under the Fourth Amendment, Hamner told my class. Exceptions to the search warrant requirement include open fields, sniffs by police K-9s, private ...

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 ...

This essay in the print edition of Reason argues that courts should overturn the "open fields" doctrine of the Fourth Amendment: In a decision issued at the dawn of Prohibition, the Supreme Court ...

The Constitution is the law of our land, the cornerstone of our government, the principles to which our military, our judges, our attorneys, and our public officials pledge themselves. It establishes ...

A recent Hillsboro-Deering High School graduate is suing administrators for searching his truck for a gun without probable cause, in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.

A federal judge in Grand Rapids has declared a law requiring businesses to report their ownership to the government as unconstitutional. Judge Robert Jonker ruled that the Corporate Transparency Act ...

A Washington D.C. man was arrested last month for following National Guard troops around while playing “The Imperial March,” ...

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 ...

The Trump administration recently asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bless racial profiling by immigration agents, and a majority of the justices have now complied. While this regrettable action is not ...