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Battle for the Constitution: Week of June 22nd, 2020 Roundup

by NCC Staff

Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American…

Battle for the Constitution: Week of June 22nd, 2020 Roundup
The Supreme Court’s role in the police accountability controversy

by Marcia Coyle

The U.S. Supreme Court interprets the law, we are told. But sometimes, the court makes the law. One of those times—more than 50…

The Supreme Court’s role in the police accountability controversy
Cross-border shooting case returns to the Supreme Court

by Robert Black

A case involving the fatal shooting of a Mexican national by a United States Border Patrol Agent is back at the Supreme Court a…

Cross-border shooting case returns to the Supreme Court
Recalling the Supreme Court’s historic statement on contraception and privacy

by Nicandro Iannacci

It was on this day in 1965 that the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case about contraception use by married couples that laid…

Recalling the Supreme Court’s historic statement on contraception and privacy
Looking back at the Church Committee

by NCC Staff

On January 27, 1975, Senator Frank Church led a new Senate committee formed to investigate allegations of U.S. government spying…

Looking back at the Church Committee
Katz v. United States: The Fourth Amendment adapts to new technology

by Nicandro Iannacci

On December 18, 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in Katz v. United States, expanding the Fourth Amendment protection against…

Katz v. United States: The Fourth Amendment adapts to new technology
Pinky the Dog gets her day at Iowa’s Supreme Court

by Scott Bomboy

A dispute about a dog that bit a cat is now at Iowa’s Supreme Court and it addresses an important question about how…

Pinky the Dog gets her day at Iowa’s Supreme Court
Looking ahead: Cases for the Supreme Court’s next term

by Scott Bomboy

Coming up in October, the Supreme Court starts a new term and hears new cases. Here’s a quick look at three cases the Justices…

Looking ahead: Cases for the Supreme Court’s next term
Another border shooting case could be heading to Supreme Court

by Scott Bomboy

A Ninth Circuit appeals court ruling may bring a question back to the Supreme Court about the ability to sue border agents at the…

Another border shooting case could be heading to Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justices broaden cellphone privacy

by Lyle Denniston

Voicing computer-age worry about Americans’ privacy when they use their telephones, a sharply split Supreme Court ruled on…

Supreme Court Justices broaden cellphone privacy
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