In the age of judicial activism, making policy has become very tempting for certain judges. When a single district judge has the ability to

"...On Friday the Supreme Court decided four cases, including a closely watched Fourth Amendment case, Carpenter v. United States, in which the justices held 5-4 that the government ordinarily needs a warrant to access historical cell-site location information. At Good Judgment, Ryan Adler assesses the crowd’s forecast in the case. At NPR, Nina Totenberg reports that “until now, the prevailing legal theory was that if an individual voluntarily shares his information with a th

In an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court acknowledged that Fourth Amendment doctrines must evolve to account for “seismic shif

The question arises if and when that affects a news organization with an interest in information held by a government employee who is taking

Lower appeals courts have taken a skeptical view of Mr. Trump’s policy, which restricts admission of citizens from a number of countries tha

Similarly his nominations to the lower courts, rushed through by Republicans without many of the usual protocols and traditions, have insula

In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal last year, Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, and Ryan Hagemann, the Niskanen Cente

Committee for Justice (CFJ) president Curt Levey spoke to Communications Daily about the latest threats to Section 230, which is the law tha

Trump has padded the Republican numbers on the 5th, 6th and 8th circuit courts, which were already Republican-dominated, and has closed the