Virginia Judge Rules Automated Collection Of License Plate Data Illegal
A Virginia Judge has ruled that automated license plate collection systems violate state law.
A Virginia Judge has ruled that automated license plate collection systems violate state law.
200-odd Congressional Democrats are taking an odd route to go after corruption.
A Federal Appeals Court recently found that chalking the tires of a car parked in a public place is a violation of the Fourth Amendment. It’s not at all clear that this decision is correct.
One opinion writer says that Senator Kamala Harris should be disqualified as a Democratic candidate because she owns a handgun.
A novel argument, untested in court, suggests that it might.
President Trump claims that he’d challenge any effort to impeach him in court, but the law makes clear that he can’t.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to uphold the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.
A Federal appeals court says the traditional means of parking enforcement violates the 4th Amendment.
The Wall Street Journal tries, and fails, to defend President Trump’s indefensible veto of the Congressional resolution regarding the war on Yemen.
The Supreme Court is likely to finish striking down restrictions on offensive trademarks.
California Governor Gavin Newsome may have put the issue front and center for 2020.
The Constitution’s invitation to struggle over foreign policy continues.
Princeton historian Sean Wilentz lays to rest a pernicious idea propagated by . . . Princeton historian Sean Wilentz.
Oral argument hints that we may have a 5-4 ruling allowing state legislatures to continue stacking the deck.
The (Acting) Secretary of Defense has issued an unconstitutional order.
A racist scholar took some fascinating photos of an enslaved man in 1860. Now, his descendants want the rights to them.
Last November the state voted overwhelming to amend its constitution. The lawmakers they elected at the same time are sabotaging it.
Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?
Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton makes an argument familiar to OTB readers.
It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.
A novel proposal for making SCOTUS appointments more responsive to election outcomes.
There appear to be enough votes in the Senate to pass the resolution disapproving President Trump’s border wall “emergency,” but there’s not enough Republican support to override an expected veto.
The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward letting a war memorial on public property stay in place.
A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has upheld the Administration’s ban on bump stocks.
The Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument in a case involving a World War I Memorial in the form of a cross on public land in Suburban Maryland.
Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.
While not subject to filibuster, it’s still subject to Presidential veto.
A bipartisan group of foreign policy luminaries says there is no factual basis for President Trump’s claim.
There’s only one solution to the D.C. statehood issue. It’s called retrocession.
A new poll shows that most Americans believe the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision should remain the law on the land. Opinion on other abortion-related issues is more divided.
A student in Florida has been charged with creating a disturbance after declining to recite the Pledge Of Allegiance in class.
The Supreme Court issued a ruling that places new limits on civil asset forfeiture by state and local government.
The lawsuits against President Trump’s “national emergency” have begun. Except more.
The shooter who killed five people in a factory in Illinois on Friday should not have had a gun to begin with.
President Trump’s impending decision to declare a national emergency to get funding for his border wall will quickly face serious legal challenges. It may be more vulnerable than the White House suspects.
The President will sign the bill to fund the government and avert another government shutdown, but in doing so he’ll also lay the groundwork for another showdown with Congress.
The former #2 official at the FBI is trying to sell a book.
A death penalty case from Alabama raises First Amendment issues that the Supreme Court chose to brush aside.
Critics on both the Left and the Right rightly see an injustice here but the US Supreme Court allowed it to happen.
The way we elect Presidents make it unlikely that a third-party candidate like Howard Schultz could ever actually win the the Presidency.
For the first tine in nearly ten years, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving Second Amendment rights.
In what amounts to a setback, the Supreme Court has lifted an injunction barring the Trump Administration’s ban on transgender service in the military to go forward pending further legal proceedings.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that could make it easier for consumers to buy and ship wine and other adult beverages across state lines.
The efforts by Speaker Pelosi and President Trump to leverage their institutional powers raise interesting questions.
Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a case that could make it easier to order and ship wine from out-of-state retailers.
President Trump is claiming that he could use authority to declare a “national emergency” to build his wall even if Congress doesn’t authorize it.
Washington has become the latest state to ban the sale of semiautomatic assault rifles to persons under 21.