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The Latest Breaking News from Orin Kerr

Kindle Version of "The Digital Fourth Amendment" Is Now Available

You have to wait until January for the physical book, but you can read the electronic version now.

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A Debate Over the Open Fields Doctrine and Fourth Amendment Law

Featuring comments from Joshua Windham, and my response.

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The ACLU's Response to My Post on the Fifth Circuit's Smith Ruling—And My Reply to the ACLU

A debate on a very important Fourth Amendment ruling.

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Congratulations to Randy Barnett, Will Baude, Steve Sachs, and Keith Whittington, Whose Academic Work Was Cited in Rahimi

Note particularly Keith Whittington's Originalism: A Critical Introduction, which Justice Barrett cited several times. UPDATE: The Criminal Procedure treatise on which Orin Kerr is a coauthor was cited today by Justice Jackson in Erlinger v. U.S. I didn't read that case as closely, so I missed the cite; thanks to…

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Trump's Trial and the First Amendment

Orin Kerr's reading of NY criminal law is overly broad and would chill constitutionally protected speech

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Former President Donald Trump's New York State Civil Fraud Verdict

A partial response to my friend and co-blogger Orin Kerr.

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Trump lawyer brags about losing case

"Apparently she wants publicity about how unethical a lawyer she is," one attorney said

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Volokh Conspiracy Holiday Gifts—2023

Gift ideas for the VC readers in your life!

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GOP now mad over Hunter Biden plea deal

Trump-appointed U.S. attorney reaches deal Hunter Biden after Trump refused lawyers' advice to avoid own charges

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SCOTUS Questions the Government's Absurdly Broad Definition of 'Aggravated Identity Theft'

According to the Justice Department's reading of the law, the crime need not involve impersonation or even fraud.

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The Feds Are Buying Their Way Around the 4th Amendment

Government agencies have paid to access huge amounts of Americans' data.

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Volokh Conspiracy Holiday Gifts—2022

Gift ideas for the VC readers in your life!

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Pretextual stops, consular nonreviewability, COVID on cruise ships.

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Why the DOJ's photo of top secret documents held by Trump matters

The photo, showing top secret documents splayed across a carpeted floor in Mar-a-Lago, was called unprecedented by many observers. It has driven discussions about Trump's legal woes into overdrive.

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A briefer reply to Orin Kerr

Replying to my recent post, Orin Kerr writes: But I read Dave as also saying that criticizing the NRA for its positions and influence in gun control debates is somehow equal to the belief that it's okay to murder groups of people for their religious beliefs. If that's what Dave…

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Don't Prosecute the Supreme Court Leaker

If the leaker's identity is ever revealed, he or she will face serious professional and reputational sanctions. There's no need to wish for criminal punishments too.

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