The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Last week, the Supreme Court gave federal agents the green light to geographically, racially and linguistically profile people while carrying out immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, and in doing so, it ...

Gov. Abbott is threatening to defund the Houston Police Department over an ordinance reminding cops they must comply with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amid uncertainty of what and when Town action would take place surrounding immigrant support, the Chapel Hill Town Council approved a resolution reinforcing the Fourth and Fifth amendments of the U.S.