Outside the Beltway

A case from Nevada provides another example of police abuse, and a possible claim arising under the long-forgotten Third Amendment.

Contemporary Americans accept actions by the state that were once the cause for revolt.

Not only do we not know the whole story of the NSA data mining operation, key details of what thought we knew are wrong.

Jay Stanley and Ben Wizner, privacy experts at the ACLU, argue that metadata is more sensitive than we think.

The government has your cell phone and credit card records. What can they do with that information?

Another body blow to the Fourth Amendment from the Supreme Court.

Once again, national security wins and privacy loses.

The American people aren’t panicking.

There seems to be an effort underway to reassess the legacy of our 43rd President.

What Miranda does and does not cover and what consequences follow if police do not comply.

All of us being watched, all the time, and that data being stored forever.

Sharing some thoughts and soliciting feedback on what the 2nd amendment means.

Will the massacre of twenty children in a Connecticut elementary school mark a turning point in America’s gun culture? Don’t count on it.

Secret surveillance of American citizens has dramatically increased under the Obama Administration.

Hey GOP, Lt. Sulu has some questions for you.

As far as the law is concerned, your social media accounts aren’t private at all.

The US Supreme Court ruled today that police can strip search anyone they decide to arrest for anything for any reason.

Can the government force a criminal defendant to reveal a computer password? A Federal case in Denver is dealing with that question right now.

California’s Governor has vetoed a bill that would have reversed a very misguided decision by that state’s Supreme Court.

In its upcoming term, the Supreme Court will examine the question whether police can track people via GPS without first obtaining a warrant.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

Florida’s new law requiring welfare recipients to pass drug tests seems to clearly violate the Fourth Amendment.

A Federal Appeals Court says the full body image scanners showing up in airports are Constitutional.

For as long as the notion of individual rights has existed, one of them has been the sanctity one’s home. As of Thursday, that’s no longer true in Indiana.

The Obama Administration is resisting efforts to expand Fourth Amendment protections to services like Gmail. That’s unfortunate.

Aaron Tobey stripped to his underdrawers in a Richmond, Virginia airport in support of the 4th Amendment.

A Federal Appeals Court in Ohio has handed down what could become a landmark ruling in the application of the 4th Amendment to the Internet.

Airport security is less intrusive in Communist China and war torn Afghanistan than in the USA. Have we finally had enough?

Civilian control of the military means, oddly, that civilians control the military. And it means precisely that the military does not get to decide which civilians run the country.

The Obama administration wants the FBI to be able to look at your Internet records without the inconvenience of respecting your 4th Amendment rights.