One year ago, black unmarked SUVs started pulling over landscaping trucks and white panel vans on main Island roads. Masked agents wearing padded camo-green vests detained 20 drivers and passengers ...

When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wear masks and use unmarked vehicles to make arrests, a federal judge from West Virginia wrote, the tactics violate the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth ...

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 of California. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them against walls, frisking them, and searching their belongings.

ICE officers and federal agents clash with protesters in south Minneapolis after Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal agents on Jan. 24, 2026. Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune ...

Federal Judge M. Casey Rodgers ruled ex-ECSO deputy Augustus Fetterhoff broke the Fourth Amendment when he drove his car into David Holland's backyard without a warrant to search for drug evidence ...

Americans who have never lived elsewhere may take for granted the constitutional protections we enjoy. The drafters of the Constitution met at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, just over a decade ...

The first-ever “July 4th Freedom Fest: Celebrate and Defend Our Constitution” will celebrate the rights and freedoms under the U.S. Constitution while providing an entertaining outing in Lawrence on ...

We have a so-called democracy that rejects that the Fourth Amendment was written to protect more than our “persons, houses, ...