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Should You Have Any 4th Amendment Rights In An Airport?
There's now a case in the 4th Circuit that shows how this is expanding even further, and on Monday we joined with the Cause of Action Institute and the Committee for Justice to file an amicus brief in the case of Hamza Kolsuz (the ACLU has also filed an amicus brief). Kolsuz had his phone searched under a "border search exception" -- but here's the thing: He was in the process of leaving the country, not entering it. A regular bag search turned up handgun parts in his checked
Techdirt


Border Smartphone Searches Need A Warrant, 4th Circ. Told
Hamza Kolsuz's iPhone 6 Plus should not have been subjected to a monthlong search without a warrant, the groups said in three separate a
Law 360


Trump Makes Next Move to Shape Federal Judiciary
Given his position on the Trump campaign’s Supreme Court list of 21 names, this could be grooming Thapar for the Supreme Court, said Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, a conservative legal group, and a senior legal fellow for FreedomWorks. “Everyone on that list was ranked somewhere from good to great as far as being a constitutionalist,” Levey told The Daily Signal. “Certainly if he is qualified to be on the Supreme Court, he is qualified to be on an appeal
The Daily Signal


Democrats will seek to tie Gorsuch to Trump as a judge soft on big business
Curt Levey, a constitutional law attorney with FreedomWorks and the Committee For Justice, said: “They will take every opportunity to make this about Trump. “In some ways it works in Gorsuch’s favour. It’s a great chance for Democrats to score points but not seriously wound Gorsuch. They’ll bring up issues where Gorsuch and Trump seems to disagree a bit and try to make Trump look bad.” Read more in The Guardian.
The Guardian


Trump advances federalism with reorganization order
The Constitution's enumeration of a limited set of activities that the federal government can engage in, as well as the underlying assum
Ashley Baker


CFJ applauds transgender case’s remand
The Constitution states that the role of the federal courts is to resolve actual cases and controversies, which does not include interpretin
CFJ Staff
U.S. Plans to Crack Down on Illegal Immigration
Watch interview online.
ABC News


Fake news about Gorsuch's record
While President Trump was admonishing the press about its fake news yesterday, the left-leaning Alliance for Justice published some fake new
Curt Levey


Neil Gorsuch is Trump’s best revenge for judicial activism
Because Gorsuch goes where the law leads him, rather than being a results-oriented judge, Trump and the Americans who voted for him will not
Published in The Daily Signal
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