After community members requested the Town declare itself a Fourth Amendment Workplace, the town council instead adopted a resolution affirming constitutional rights.

Here’s a subject new to this column: The Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Before the U.S. Supreme Court in Barnes v.

Suppose the police want to get illegal drugs off the streets. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them against walls, frisking them, and searching their belongings. They also force ...

This is an adapted excerpt from the Sept. 13 episode of “Velshi.” Last week, the Supreme Court gave federal agents the green light to geographically, racially and linguistically profile people while ...

A federal judge has ruled Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s practice of conducting arrests with masked, unidentifiable agents violates the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable seizures.

Originalism teaches only that the Constitution’s original meaning is fixed; meanwhile, of course, new applications of that meaning will arise with new developments and new technologies. Consider a few ...