The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday advanced legislation that would bar the federal government from circumventing the Fourth Amendment by purchasing Americans’ private data without a warrant.
The House-passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes Rep. Warren Davidson’s (R-OH) amendment that would bar the Pentagon from purchasing Americans’ private data, which is considered a run around Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless searches.
Reps. Warren Davidson (R-OH) and Sara Jacobs (D-CA) introduced an amendment that would bar the federal government from buying Americans’ private information, which privacy advocates say is a run around the Fourth Amendment.
The prosecution of a former CIA agent accused of sexually abusing multiple women could collapse due to questions over evidence obtainment.
A federal judge recently ruled that scanning a student’s room before a virtual test is unconstitutional as it violates the fourth amendment.
The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, had “no legal basis,” according to a Wall Street Journal op-ed by former White House and Department of Justice lawyers David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey.
Former President Donald Trump filed a motion requesting an independent review of the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago during an FBI raid on his home earlier this month.
Former President Donald Trump announced he would “soon” file a Fourth Amendment unlawful search and seizure motion over the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago in a post made on TRUTH Social on Friday.
The Biden administration has brought a “nightmare” upon America as it “dragged us into the Dark Ages” and “raped half the nation,” according to conservative radio legend Michael Savage.
In the opinion for the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Caniglia v. Strom Associate Justice Samuel Alito noted red flag provisions “may be challenged under the Fourth Amendment.”
In a case alleging that police seized a man’s firearms while he was at hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, the U.S. Supreme Court held in a unanimous 9-0 decision that entering the house without a search warrant violates the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
Alan Dershowitz said he was “disappointed” in Merrick Garland’s approval of a search warrant for the FBI to raid Rudy Giuliani’s apartment.
In an interview with Steve Malzberg on his weekly Sunday commentary show Eat the Press, progressive feminist author and former Democrat adviser Dr. Naomi Wolf expressed alarm regarding President Joe Biden’s current state of health and its implications for U.S. national security.
Wednesday during an appearance on FBN’s “Kennedy,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) vowed to champion a fight against data brokers, who collect data on individuals through the use of apps on their smartphones and sell it.
In pursuing a partisan case for impeachment, Democrats have also violated several cherished amendments in the Bill of Rights.
“That the FBI and the intelligence community and the Department of Justice began an investigation against four American citizens simply because they worked for the opposition political candidate, that being Donald Trump.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called the border wall proposal hammered out by congressional negotiators a “big victory” for President Trump.
New Jersey recently made 1 million of its citizens criminals by banning common firearm ammunition magazines without any grandfathering provision, but plaintiffs challenging the statute on Second Amendment grounds also argue that it violates equal protection because it exempts retired law enforcement, but not retired military – a feature noticed just as America prepares to celebrate the Fourth of July.
A divided Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Friday that the Constitution does not permit the government to get cell phone records from service providers without a search warrant. The 114-page decision was comprised mostly of dissents from conservative justices criticizing the Court majority for ignoring the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has published an article celebrating the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s personal lawyer as a victory for the rule of law — not a violation of attorney-client privilege and the president’s constitutional rights.
The Supreme Court on Monday completed its docket for the annual term that began in October 2017 and ends in June 2018, rounding out a term containing cases for the history books.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker forged ahead with his plan to drug test food stamp recipients Monday after his plan stalled for more than two years.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a major case on digital privacy and global communications involving a suspected drug trafficker using an email account controlled by Microsoft.
The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) issued a detainer request on the Sonoma County Jail for Jesus Fabian Gonzalez, who was arrested Sunday on suspicion of arson in Wine Country fires that have killed at least 40 residents.
The Supreme Court set aside an appeals court decision involving the fatal border shooting of a Mexican national by a U.S. Border Patrol agent, sending the case back down for further proceedings on possible violations of constitutional rights and whether the agent is personally liable to pay money to the Mexican citizen’s family.
President Trump’s travel ban, the Second Amendment, religious liberty versus LGBT issues, and even the possibility of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement will be addressed, as all eyes are on the Supreme Court on Monday.
The Supreme Court of the United States announced Monday that it would review a lower court ruling in Carpenter v. United States that police do not need a search warrant to obtain customer location data from cellphone providers.
Intelligence agencies violated the constitutional rights of American citizens through illegal surveillance during the Obama administration, recently declassified documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) show.
Gabby Giffords is partnering with gun controllers in law enforcement to fight against national recognition of concealed carry permits for law-abiding citizens.
The Indiana Supreme Court ruled that Fourth Amendment protections cover individuals who are exercising Second Amendment rights as well.
The government has long denied that the FBI took advantage of Best Buy’s “Geek Squad” technicians to conduct surveillance on American citizens, but according to OC Weekly, recently unsealed court documents prove it really did happen. In fact, according to these records,
How a U.S. Border Patrol argent’s use of lethal force at the U.S-Mexican border implicates constitutional rights and foreign affairs dominated arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in Hernandez v. Mesa. The lawyer arguing that the agent should be held liable had a rough day in front of the justices.
During a Wall Street Journal Future of Cybersecurity breakfast, former NSA director Michael Hayden suggested banning whole categories of guns “might” need to be part of America’s “counterterrrorism discussion” going forward.
Although Hillary Clinton condemned New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy during Monday’s debate (aided by Lester Holt, the debate moderator), the truth is that stop-and-frisk is perfectly constitutional under the Bill of Rights’ Fourth Amendment. Mayor Rudy Giuliani implemented stop-and-frisk during
Roanoke police chief Tim Jones is urging the City Council to curtail open carry within city limits by barring the carry of some of the most popular semiautomatics available.
Legal fallout from the FBI’s “Playpen” investigation continues, as a federal judge in Texas has ruled that penetrating a computer with malware (or, as the FBI prefers to call it, a “Network Investigative Technique”) constitutes a “search” under the Fourth Amendment.
HOUSTON, Texas — A judge in Harris County, Texas, has sanctioned Child Protective Services and ordered the agency to pay $27,500 in attorneys fees. He has also ordered CPS personnel to read the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the Texas Constitution.
Bikers who were caught-up in the Twin Peaks arrests in May 2015 have filed motions to recuse the Waco District Attorney. They say they cannot get a fair trial because there is a conflict of interest and have asked for the appointment of an attorney pro tem.
Only a few months after a coalition of left wing attorneys general and environmentalists commenced an intimidation campaign against ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) for its presumed politically incorrect views on climate change, the effort has begun to stall after the U.S. Virgin Islands dropped its subpoena amid accusations of political bias and civil rights violations.
When a veteran started offering traditional remarks at a military flag-folding ceremony, several uniformed airmen assaulted him, dragging him out of the room because his remarks mentioned God. Now First Liberty Institute lawyers representing retired Senior Master Sergeant Oscar Rodriguez are demanding that the U.S. Air Force apologize and punish those responsible or face a federal civil-rights lawsuit.
