About that 4th amendment...

1. There's the new Supreme Court case, Kentucky v. King , described here by Orin Kerr, who thinks Justice Alito "did a pretty shar...

2 Harvard law students sue Janet Napolitano and the TSA administrator over the airport scanning and groping.

They say it violates the 4th Amendment. IN THE COMMENTS: lyssalovelyredhead said: On a related note, I heard from a lawyer today... that his...

"Splitless and factbound."

I.e. , not certworthy, but the the Supreme Court took cert in the text messaging called Quon.

The new Supreme Court cases, especially the new negative Commerce Clause case.

SCOTUSblog gives us a first glimpse: The Supreme Court, in a major victory for Microsoft Corp.... Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T... In a second...

"President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail without a judge's warrant."

So the Daily News wrot e back in January: Experts said the new powers could be easily abused and used to vacuum up large amounts of mail. ...

The shocking decision in ACLU v. NSA.

I guess I should say I gagged on it, to keep up today's neck/throat theme. But really... I'm truly shocked. It's like the feelin...

Not digging Judge Anna Diggs Taylor.

I haven't had the time to read Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's opinion about the NSA program, other than to skim it and form the impressi...

What is this seeming compromise on the NSA surveillance program?

The NYT reports: The White House has agreed to allow limited judicial review of the eavesdropping program run by the National Security Agenc...

"Is there no policy of protecting the home owner a little bit and the sanctity of the home from this immediate entry?"

Worried Justice O'Connor at oral argument in Hudson v. Michigan last Janauary. The case was reargued after Alito replaced O'Connor...

"Reveal[ing] the strains behind the surface placidity and collegiality of the young Roberts court."

The first dissenting opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts provides an occasion for Linda Greenhouse to portray the mood of the Cou...

What Gonzales will say about the surveillance program.

Today, Attorney General Gonzales will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the Bush administration's surveillance progra...

Defending the NSA surveillance program.

The Department of Justice has a 42-page legal analysis of the much-criticized NSA surveillance program ( PDF ): The [Authorization for Use o...

Robscalithom predictions.

William Safire returns to the NYT op-ed page to do his usual "office pool" on predictions for the year 2006. Question 4 is about ...

They don't need to plant a tracking device on you.

Your cellphone is a tracking device. You planted it on yourself. The government has routinely used records of cellphone calls and caller lo...