Another Case Shows the Supreme Court Doesn’t Protect Liberty
The Supreme Court handed down another opinion eroding the Fourth Amendment in a case that should have never gone to the federal court. Kansas v. Gloverย revolves around a traffic stop by Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Mehrer. He pulled Charles Glover over...
Federal Appeals Court: Warrantless Data Collection Is Constitutional
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion that domestic data gobbled up by the National Security Agency (NSA) under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and PRISM are are not covered by the Fourth Amendment and their collection...
Applying the Fourth Amendment’s Original Meaning to Cell Phones and Heat Sensors
How should the Fourth Amendmentโs original meaning be applied to modern technology that was not in existence at the time of the Amendmentโs enactment? Many commentators believe this type of question problematic to answer. As Justice Alito quipped some years ago at...