The Supreme Court Gave Us All One Big Win This Term
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Criminal Justice
Elena Kagan Just Bolstered the Fourth Amendment in a Badly Needed Way
Kagan insists that the Fourth Amendment cannot be defeated by slicing invasions of privacy into pieces small enough to appear…
The Supreme Court Issued an 8–1 Ruling on Plea Deals. The Accord Won’t Last.
The Supreme Court issued an important criminal justice ruling on Thursday about the appropriate bounds of plea bargains.
Another Racially Charged Verdict Has Split Americans. Here’s the Real Scandal.
It was the jury selection, plain and simple.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Stands Firm—and Alone—on Compassionate Release
Does the inaccuracy or unfairness of an underlying conviction count as an “extraordinary and compelling reason” for compassionate release?
Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts Remain Strangely Clear-Eyed About One Kind of Racism
The Supreme Court issued a surprisingly good decision in a racial jury-selection case on Thursday.
The Supreme Court Weighs How Much Google Surveillance Can Be Used Against You in Court
Those questions do not have clean answers. But the instinct underlying the Fourth Amendment remains surprisingly stable across centuries.