The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 on Monday that law enforcement’s use of “geofence” data constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. The ruling effectively ends unauthorized digital dragnets by applying protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights.
Parents in Minnesota are facing charges related to the fentanyl overdose death of their one-year-old baby girl in December of 2023.
The House seeks to reauthorize a controversial spy program when Congress returns from recess next week.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) violated the constitutional rights of hundreds of Americans when it seized the contents from 1,400 safe deposit boxes during a 2021 raid on a Beverly Hills business, a federal appeals court ruled on January 23.
Special Counsel Jack Smith, in a search warrant sent to X, formerly Twitter, requested a vast swathe of information about the account of former President Donald J. Trump, as well as information on the millions of accounts that interacted with it — even those that liked a tweet by Trump in the timeframe of October 2020 to January 2021.
A recently unsealed search warrant lists more items authorities found inside Bryan Kohberger’s parents’ home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, following his arrest in the murder case of four University of Idaho students.
The FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles misled the judge who signed a search warrant that led to more than $86 million in cash being seized, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Former President Donald Trump mocked the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) heavily redacted search warrant affidavit that was used as the basis for the FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered a redacted version of the search warrant affidavit used in the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago to be unsealed on Friday by noon EST.
A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent who signed one of the property receipts during the Mar-a-Lago raid appears in a January 6 court filing.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made a fool of himself Tuesday evening by finally releasing a limp and late statement about Monday’s outrageous FBI raid on former President Trump’s private residence.
Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) is warning Americans that President Joe Biden “can weaponize 87,000 IRS agents against conservatives everywhere” if he “can weaponize the DOJ against his political opponents.”
Authorities say they have arrested two suspects after finding a missing Florida man dead in the trunk of his car in a Walgreens parking lot.
Search warrant documents connected to a hard drive located in Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie’s van said there was “more and more tension” between them before she disappeared.
In the opinion for the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Caniglia v. Strom Associate Justice Samuel Alito noted red flag provisions “may be challenged under the Fourth Amendment.”
One Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent and possibly another was reportedly shot and killed and others hurt while serving a warrant at a home in Sunrise, Florida, on Tuesday, law enforcement sources said.
Recently released court documents reveal that Google is sharing data on search keywords with police departments. According to the documents, police departments are able to obtain data from Google on every individual who has searched for a specific keyword. If the allegations are true, police departments are using IP addresses provided by Google to connect users to specific crimes. However, privacy experts believe the practice violates the Fourth Amendment.
Tamika Mallory, co-founder of the Women’s March, slammed the first black AG in Kentucky, calling Daniel Cameron a “sellout negro.”
Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron said at a press conference about Breonna Taylor’s death that as a black man he understands the pain it has caused.
British police are calling for expanded powers to enforce the coronavirus lockdown rules, including the authority to forcefully enter private residences suspected of hosting forbidden gatherings.
There was a time gap of almost a month between the discovery of Hillary Clinton’s emails on the laptop of Anthony Weiner and the obtaining of a search warrant.
A December 19 ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit states that police officers do not violate constitutional rights by shooting suspects’ dogs during the execution of a search warrant.
Legal fallout from the FBI’s “Playpen” investigation continues, as a federal judge in Texas has ruled that penetrating a computer with malware (or, as the FBI prefers to call it, a “Network Investigative Technique”) constitutes a “search” under the Fourth Amendment.
Federal authorities searched the home of the brother of San Bernardino Islamic terrorist Syed Farook on Thursday.
A bill is set to go before the Texas State House of Representatives Monday that would protect individuals from body cavity searches by peace officers unless a search warrant has been issued by a magistrate. The bill, authored by Rep. Harold Dutton (D-Houston), is designed to address incidents in Texas where law enforcement officers conducted body cavity searches during a traffic stop. The bill, H.B. 324, defines “body cavity search” as an inspection that is conducted of a person’s anal or vaginal cavity in any manner.
Pregnant women from China discovered in California “Chinese birthing houses” could likely still give birth in the U.S. during the course of a massive investigation into multiple “maternity tourism” schemes. “Birth tourism” operations bring pregnant women into the U.S. for the purpose of giving birth on U.S. soil, giving their babies U.S. citizenship.
