Category Archives: Constitutional Law
Cellphone Location Data Important in Prosecuting Idaho College Murders
Cellular Location Site Information (CLSI) allows law enforcement, through the global positioning system (GPS) and phone company records, to track the location of a…
Traffic Stop for Safely Crossing Dividing Lane Ruled Unlawful
The legal question before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (“CCA”) in a November 2, 2022 decision, State v. Hardin, was straightforward and constitutionally…
Know Your Rights: Right to Remain Silent
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides five distinct procedural safeguards for those accused of a crime and to secure life, liberty, and…
Know Your Rights: The Right to Counsel
The right to counsel originates from the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. However, the original draft of the Constitution did not contain the…
Know Your Rights: When Police Come Calling With a Warrant
The August 8, 2022 search and seizure at former President Donald J. Trump’s Mar-A-Lago private club/residence by the FBI has put the issues of…
Know Your Rights: Recording Police Misconduct
The recent video that captured three Crawford County, Arkansas, police officers restraining and beating a man illustrates the social value of video recording the…
Political Fissures Rip the U.S. Supreme Court
“Equal justice under law,” by its own admission, is the core constitutional purpose of the U.S. Supreme Court. In fulfilling this purpose, the nine…
The American Attack on Julian Assange and Free Press
Julian Assange is a complex character whose work at WikiLeaks has attracted enemies from divergent political parties, movements, and elected officials worldwide. Regardless, the…
Is America Becoming A Fascist State?
The fact that this question is now percolating throughout the nation is, standing alone, disturbing, to say the least. But given that the federal…
Federal Government Cranks Up Executions During Pandemic
The federal government’s July 14, 2020 execution of Daniel Lewis Lee in the federal penal facility at Terre Haute, Indiana—the first and only execution…
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