4th Amendment

The recent debates over the sunset of the bulk collection of Americans’ “metadata” under the PATRIOT Act and other government searches and seizures provide valuable lessons if we are preserve the integrity of the Fourth Amendment.[read_more] The Fourth Amendment is quintessential American law governing government.…

Senator Mike Lee’s newest book, Our Lost Constitution, has a superb chapter about John Wilkes, who was arrested and his papers seized for criticizing the king.[read_more] The Wilkes case from 1763 was impetus for the Fourth Amendment, which until recently may have been the most…