Browsing: Civil Liberties

In last week’s Shinn v Ramirez ruling, the Supreme Court dangerously accelerated the process of getting federal courts out of the business of enforcing rights, argues TCR’s legal columnist James Doyle.

Texas police seized $42,000 from Ameal Woods’ car in 2019 when his car was stopped and searched. Texas authorities say they have the right to keep it under civil forfeiture statutes, but a class-action lawsuit argues that such searches erode Fourth Amendment rights ― and produce loss of respect for law enforcement.