ICE, like any other law enforcement agency, must have a judicial warrant in order to enter a home without consent. But they rarely do. In the absence of a judicial warrant authorizing entry, ICE agents have taken to gaining access to residences through deception, or a "ruse," a tactic that many courts have found to violate the Fourth Amendment. Yet ICE’s memoranda instructing agents about the use of ruses, issued in 2005 and 2006, do not acknowledge any constitutional limitations on the use of ruses, by implication permitting and encouraging agents to misrepresent themselves and their purpose.
...The plaintiffs describe the law’s aim in the complaint as “to chill, and harshly punish, speech and expression in opposition to pipeline projects.” They argue the law is unconstitutional because...
...In order to explain this decision and how the right to privacy might be overturned, and how it can be defended, I’m joined by Chinyere Ezie. She’s a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional...
...J. Wells Dixon, a senior attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights who specializes in challenging detentions at the Guantanamo prison but was not involved with Lindh’s case, said he “was...
...“By turning so much of the land in this state into critical infrastructure, the average person can find themselves facing five years in prison for literally just being in the wrong place at the...
...Two of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, including lead plaintiff Anne White Hat, are protesters currently facing felony jail time. White Hat could be sentenced to as many as 10 years in prison for...
From Detention Watch Network (DWN) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Banking on Detention: Local Lockup Quotas and the Immigration Dragnet (2015) explores and exposes the depth of local...
These documents confirm that local pipeline opponents are being monitored by high-level intelligence officers in the Governor’s office coordinating between federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies through the Fusion Center. Emails from an intelligence officer in the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) document the activity of two local organizations – the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and L’eau Est la Vie camp. Both emails were sent by James Waskom, director of GOHSEP appointed by the governor, to Chuck Carr Brown, head of the LDEQ. One was sent by Waskom to the Louisiana State Police, Louisiana National Guard, the head of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources in addition to Brown.
We're suing to block Louisian's anti-protest law On Wednesday, landowners, community members, environmental justice advocates, and a journalist filed a lawsuit challenging a Louisiana law that makes...
