civil liberties
Sonia Sotomayor's record on protecting people from needlessly degrading searches is certainly considerably more encouraging than that of the previous nominee. Unfortunately, this will probably be too late to help.
Lithwick and Savage bring the depressing news about yesterday's oral argument in the case in which a 13-year-old young woman was strip-searched by school officials because of an entirely uncorroborated.
It's not surprising that the Ninth Circuit has held that the Second Amendment should be "incorporated" and apply to state governments as well as the federal government, and when the.
A couple things pointed out by commenters in post last week give us a chilling window into a society in which, for example, two judges routinely throwing juveniles in jail.
I can't add much to what Greenwald says here and Wheeler argues here, but the Obama administration's use of Yoovian theories of arbitrary executive authority are indeed appalling.
In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled in Apprendi v. New Jersey that under the 6th Amendment's right to a jury trial, any factor that increased a defendant's sentence had to.
For people who care about civil liberties, it was definitely not a good thing when the Roberts Court decided to hear an exclusionary rule case this term. The Court's Wednesday.
Judge Richard Leon -- an appointee of George W. Bush -- issued a major ruling following the wake of the Supreme Court's Boumediene decision yesterday, ordering five Guantanamo detainees released.