Tag: Fourth Amendment

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week after he announced he would double the Justice Department's efforts in the so-called War on Drugs.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Beltway Confidential

Welcome to the party, Kamala Harris

Becket Adams · September 1, 2017 9:59 pm

How the Fourth Amendment Can Keep Up With Modern Surveillance

Matthew Feeney · August 31, 2017 10:22 am

Protecting Privacy

Matthew Feeney · August 25, 2017 8:00 am

The Justice Department has won the ability to exercise a search warrant against an anti-Trump website after a superior court judge ruled Thursday it could seek data it says connects the website to violent riots that erupted on Inauguration Day. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

DC court sides with Justice Department in seeking data from anti-Trump website

Sean Langille · August 24, 2017 6:54 pm

Tech giants said they want the court "to ensure that the law realistically engages with Internet-based technologies and with people's expectations of privacy in their digital data." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Apple, Facebook, others urge Supreme Court to change Fourth Amendment privacy doctrines

Ryan Lovelace · August 15, 2017 6:47 pm

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts attends an event at the Victoria University of Wellington on Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in Wellington, New Zealand. Roberts said he thinks rapidly advancing technology poses one of the biggest challenges for the high court. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)

Chief Justice John Roberts: Judges ‘shouldn’t be scrutinized as if they were’ politicians

Ryan Lovelace · July 26, 2017 2:38 pm

If you're a conservative and you believe in personal property rights and the virtue of limited government, there's no defending a policy wherein law enforcement officials can work around local and state ordinances to seize an individual's property based entirely on suspicion. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Sessions forcing Congress’ hand to reform civil forfeiture

Washington Examiner · July 21, 2017 4:01 am

If you're a conservative and you believe in personal property rights and the virtue of limited government, there's no defending a policy wherein law enforcement officials can work around local and state ordinances to seize an individual's property based entirely on suspicion. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Beltway Confidential

The new Justice Department directive is garbage. Call your representative.

Becket Adams · July 20, 2017 1:13 am

A Washington Post analyzed documents released by Edward Snowden and reported on July 5, 2014 that, "Ordinary Internet users, American and non-American alike, far outnumber legally targeted foreigners in the communications intercepted by the National Security Agency." (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

FISA reform is needed, and conservatives should lead the way

Brian Darling · July 17, 2017 4:01 am

"Not all deception by law enforcement invalidates voluntary consent" to a search, Judge William Pryor wrote in the 2-1 decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.(AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Appeals court: Police can lie to get consent to search your home

Ryan Lovelace · June 28, 2017 6:12 pm

Silk Road founder loses appeal of life sentence and conviction

Ryan Lovelace · May 31, 2017 1:57 pm

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court scrapped the provocation rule because of its inconsistency with existing court precedent. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court overturns 9th Circuit’s ‘provocation rule’ involving police use of force

Ryan Lovelace · May 30, 2017 3:47 pm