Outside the Beltway

Both sides have had their say and now we wait for a ruling.

The 6-3 ruling broke down on predictable lines.

In a case that pit the new rules of cyberspace against the old rules about when the Fourth Amendment protects privacy, the Supreme Court ruled today in a way that breathes new life into both privacy and the Fourth Amendment.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that a police officer violated the Fourth Amendment when he conducted a search on a vehicle parked in a Defendant’s driveway without a search warrant.

The Supreme Court ruled that the mere fact that the driver of a rental car is not listed on the rental agreement is not sufficient to justify a warrantless search of the vehicle.

The Supreme Court balances the Fourth Amendment against public safety concerns and, for the most part, gets it right.

For the fourth time in three years, a Federal Court has ruled that Florida’s law requiring drug tests for welfare recipients is unconstitutional.

New Jersey’s highest court gets it right.

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

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

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.