Opinion

The Fourth Amendment and the Color-Blind Constitution

When applying Fourth Amendment doctrine, to what extent can race and ethnicity be considered? The Supreme Court denied cert on Monday in United States v. Carter, a case on this question—specifically, ...

Your Fourth Amendment rights now depend on your ZIP code

The Fourth Amendment doesn’t ask how you feel. It asks what a reasonable person would perceive. That’s not a technicality — ...

Elena Kagan Just Bolstered the Fourth Amendment in a Badly Needed Way

Kagan insists that the Fourth Amendment cannot be defeated by slicing invasions of privacy into pieces small enough to appear ...
Davis Vanguard

Civil Rights Groups Ask Ninth Circuit to Bar ICE From Entering Homes With Self-Issued Administrative Warrants

Three legal advocacy organizations submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, contending ...