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

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

Here’s a subject new to this column: The Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Before the U.S. Supreme Court in Barnes v.

What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be ...

Last week, in an unsigned order issued without an explanation, and in direct defiance of the plain language of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, the Supreme Court of the United States ...

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

The Constitution is the law of our land, the cornerstone of our government, the principles to which our military, our judges, ...

Last week, the Supreme Court gave federal agents the green light to geographically, racially and linguistically profile people while carrying out immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, and in doing so, it ...

This is an adapted excerpt from the Sept. 13 episode of “Velshi.” Last week, the Supreme Court gave federal agents the green light to geographically, racially and linguistically profile people while ...