{"id":60541,"date":"2025-03-21T04:22:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T09:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60541"},"modified":"2025-03-21T04:22:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T09:22:48","slug":"reason-warrantless-home-searches-under-the-alien-enemies-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60541","title":{"rendered":"Reason: Warrantless Home Searches Under the Alien Enemies Act?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reason: The Volokh Conspiracy: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2025\/03\/21\/warrantless-home-searches-under-the-alien-enemies-act\/\">Warrantless Home Searches Under the Alien Enemies Act?<\/a> by Orin S. Kerr:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>In the New York Times, Devlin Barrett reports that \u201cTrump administration lawyers have determined that an 18th-century wartime law the president has invoked to deport suspected members of a Venezuelan gang allows federal agents to enter homes without a warrant, -according to people familiar with internal discussions.\u201d<br \/>. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The curious part of the story is that it&#8217;s hard to tell what the government&#8217;s legal theory is. What specifically do they think suspends the usual Fourth Amendment warrant requirement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The closest I can figure combines the references to &#8220;historical uses of the law&#8221; and a passage near the end of the story that references this 2024 report on the Alien Enemies Act. A sentence in that report says that, during World War II, being an alien enemy as designated by the Act was used &#8220;as sufficient cause for warrantless house raids in search of contraband.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: The Volokh Conspiracy: Warrantless Home Searches Under the Alien Enemies Act? by Orin S. Kerr:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-arrests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60542,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60541\/revisions\/60542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}