Part of a series on the Road to the American Revolution By Nancy Spannaus July 14, 2025—Since the ratification of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791, the people of the United States have had the right “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against […] The post Illegal Searches and Seizures — in 1761 appeared first on American System Now.| American System Now
Mike Fox of the Cato Institute has argued that ICE's detention and border enforcement practices, enabled by Supreme Court decisions, violate individual privacy rights and expand government power in ways the Constitution's framers sought to prevent.| Davis Vanguard
Flock Safety, whose car-tracking cameras are used by SFPD and other Bay Area law...| San Francisco Chronicle
Every year, police perform searches governed by the Fourth Amendment on hundreds of thousands of individuals and their property throughout the United States. Many of the academy’s most decorated scholars have focused on the genesis and jurisprudential nature of the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. Surprisingly, we know almost nothing about how the Fourth Amendment regulates searches and how searches actually work in practice.In this Article, we pull back the curtain on the search a...| Harvard Law Review
The first known case in the country of a judge precluding evidence obtained as a result of using a cell-site simulator without a warrant.| Camden Civil Rights Project
Yaoyu Tang, MJLST Staffer| LawSci Forum
The Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures extends to the length of a seizure, a federal court ruled last week,| Reason.com