Video surveillance cameras are becoming an increasingly widespread feature of American life. Although surveillance cameras have been around for decades, in just the last few years we have seen ...

Governor Gavin Newsom’s announcement to commute death sentences for more than 500 people will clear the largest death row in ...

Justin Levitt addresses the anxieties of voting this Election Day, and provides practical tips to make your voice heard at the polls.

SACRAMENTO – California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today that he was moving to commute all death sentences in California, ...

A Supreme Court decision recognized that official, government-sponsored prayers in public schools are unconstitutional. Today ...

The executive summary, findings, and conclusion of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s landmark torture report.

The ACLU defends the civil rights and liberties of unhoused people and works to end laws and practices that punish and exile ...

The Fourth Amendment generally requires the government to get a warrant before searching your private information, but government agencies are circumventing the intent of the Constitution by simply ...

2 for the Western District of New York No. 6:25-cv-6532, Meredith A. Vacca, Judge. Before: CABRANES, BIANCO, and NATHAN, Circuit Judges. The government appeals from a grant of a writ of habeas corpus.

In a case challenging New Hampshire’s school-funding scheme, the State has asked the New Hampshire Supreme Court to overturn decades of precedent recognizing a state constitutional right to an ...

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In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006), the Supreme Court ruled that the original military commission system established by former President George W. Bush to try detainees at Guantánamo Bay was unlawful ...