Josh Windham, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice who is representing Venegas, says that the government's argument ...

ICE claims power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant. A former federal judge explains why that guts the Fourth Amendment and endangers everyone.

James Percival, the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, recently defended the department’s policy and ...

The Iowa City Writers' Group shares their thoughts on the latest current events.

Forcibly entering homes without a judicial warrant. Arresting journalists who reported on protests. Defying dozens of federal orders. Killing U.S. citizens for noncompliance. Asking constitutionally ...

From the Fourth Amendment to the Mexican Repatriation of the 1930s, history warns against prioritizing speed over due process.

In September, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police. When the court stayed the district court’s decision in Noem v. Vasquez ...

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 ...

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 ...