The Fourth Amendment was introduced in Congress in 1789 by James Madison, along with the other amendments in the Bill of Rights, in response to Anti-Federalist objections to the new Constitution.

On a balmy day in November 1962, a Republican activist set up shop in a poor precinct in South Phoenix. He wasn’t there to ...

The Fourth Amendment is arguably one of the most important amendments in the U.S. Constitution. It protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures in areas that most would consider private, ...

The Fourth Amendment protects Americans from “unreasonable searches and seizures” by the government. But the Supreme Court's interpretation of “unreasonable” has varied over time.

When Congress enacted the Stored Communications Act of 1986, it said the statute would guarantee the privacy of digital data ...

...no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. The first half ...

Headworth, Spencer 2019. Getting to Know You: Welfare Fraud Investigation and the Appropriation of Social Ties. American Sociological Review, Vol. 84, Issue. 1, p ...

In the United States, we elect our president and vice president using the Electoral College rather than the national popular ...

I'm pleased to say that you can now pre-order my book, The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World. I've been a professor for almost twenty ...

Video footage of Phoenix police officers beating and tasing a deaf black man with cerebral palsy has led to an internal ...

An incident in Mississippi provides a window into a dystopian future where USPS workers and local cops can block people from ...

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