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 ...

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 ...

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is not long—only 54 words, in total. But its core premise can be summed up with a simple phrase: Come back with a warrant. The Fourth Amendment protects ...

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 ...

Once in a while there is a court ruling on the Fourth Amendment that just makes my jaw drop. The Fifth Circuit had such a ruling last Friday, United States v. Jamarr Smith. The case creates a split ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

It has been seven years since Professors William Baude and James Y. Stern published “The Positive Law Model of the Fourth Amendment” in the Harvard Law Review. Early this year, Professors Danielle ...

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 ...

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of America. Amendments are ...