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Collective Suspicion Is Unreasonable

On September 8, the Supreme Court issued a disturbing shadow docket order in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, a case dealing with ICE stops in Los Angeles County. The question at issue is whether a federal agent may rely in part on a person’s race or ethnicity as part of a Fourth Amendment analysis of when […]

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National Guard Deployments and the Fourth Amendment

On August 11, President Donald Trump deployed National Guard troops to Washington D.C. and federalized the city’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Armed troops are patrolling the streets of D.C. with an influx of agents from the FBI, DHS, DEA, ICE, the State Department, and other federal agencies. Guard troops from Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, West […]