Fourth Amendment
DOJ seeks to drop charges against officers in Breonna Taylor warrant case
Louisville, Kentucky, Detective Joshua Jaynes lied when he applied for the March 2020 warrant that resulted in Breonna Taylor's death. Then he lied about his lies. Sgt. Kyle Meany, the supervisor who approved the warrant…
Justice Sotomayor on the Freedom of the Press and the Right to Ask Questions
From Justice Sotomayor's dissent from the denial of certiorari today in Villarreal v. Alaniz, which strikes me as quite persuasive:To defeat a claim of qualified immunity, an individual must show that an official…
Police Had Qualified Immunity for Use of Wristlock on Capitol Sit-In Protester
From Zorn v. Linton, decided today in an unsigned per curiam opinion: On the Governor's inauguration day in Vermont, protesters staged a sit-in at the state capitol. When the capitol closed for the day, police officers…
Markwayne Mullin Says Agents Don’t Need a Warrant If They’re Pursuing a Suspect. Here’s What the Law Says.
During his Wednesday confirmation hearing, Sen. Mullin (R-Okla.), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary nominee, said he would reverse the agency's current policy allowing immigration officers to forcibly…
Markwayne Mullin’s history of condoning murder and resisting transparency makes him ill-suited to run DHS
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R–Okla.), President Donald Trump's nominee to replace Kristi Noem as secretary of homeland security, appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs today as part…
Iowa officials arrested this guy for criticizing them—twice. A federal judge says they are liable.
As Noah Petersen saw it, he was exercising his freedom of speech when he criticized the Newton, Iowa, police department during the public comment period at a city council meeting. But according to Mayor Michael Hansen and…
ICE whistleblower says training is ‘deficient, defective, and broken’
On Monday, an attorney and former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) instructor, Ryan Schwank, testified before Congress that the agency's new training program is "deficient, defective, and broken,"…
Mike Johnson wants to spare ICE the hassle of getting the right warrant before forcibly entering a home
"Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant." Those are the complaining words of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R–La.), who was voicing his support for the actions of U.S.…
Drug dogs should not be unleashed to authorize apartment searches, a SCOTUS brief argues
In the 2013 case Florida v. Jardines, the Supreme Court held that police violated the Fourth Amendment when they deployed a drug-detecting dog on the front porch of a house without a warrant. But last year in United States v.…
Minneapolis shootings could spur new body cam rules for ICE and CBP
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is reviewing body camera footage of the encounter that culminated in Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti's death on Saturday. That footage could help clarify the circumstances in…
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