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

Now there is no real limit on police seizures. History teaches us that people of color will bear the brunt of this, including ...

A recent Supreme Court decisions strips away what little remained of the guardrails preventing police from seizing anyone under a flimsy pretext, law professors Daniel Harawa and Kate Weisburd ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the 4th Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures ...

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 ...

The Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures has been regrettably whittled down over the years by the federal courts. Still, some meaningful protections contained in the ...

A crucial question of Fourth Amendment law has recently divided courts: When government agents conduct a digital scan through a massive database, how much of a "search" occurs? The issue pops up in ...

Once a constitutional principle is treated as negotiable for one group — Latino communities in this case — it becomes weaker for all of us.

In September, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police.