Slate: The One Area Where Supreme Court Jurisprudence Is Actually Improving Thanks to Originalism

Slate: The One Area Where Supreme Court Jurisprudence Is Actually Improving Thanks to Originalism by David Gans (“For decades, the Supreme Court has repeatedly deferred to the police when judging the validity of searches and seizures by the government. For that reason, it is no small feat that, in the recently concluded Supreme Court term, individuals challenging abuse of police authority won every one of the Fourth Amendment cases on the Supreme Court’s merits docket. Surprisingly—but  quietly and without much fanfare—progressives have racked up a number of important victories before a deeply conservative Supreme Court, succeeding in reversing a string of lower court rulings that had sided with the police.”)