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Trained To Trespass: Louisiana Game Wardens Snoop Around Private Land
Private land is a sanctuary for millions of Americans—a haven from the hustle and bustle of daily life and a place we can make and call our own. And Tom Manuel knows that better than most. As a forester by trade, Tom has made his living managing, cultivating, and protecting his clients’ lands throughout Louisiana. But late last year, Tom found out that Louisiana doesn’t think much of his privacy. State officials believe they have the right to enter and look around Tom’s property whenever they please—all without Tom’s permission, a warrant, or any suspicion of a crime.
IJ’s work is most effective when it gains community support. That means we also had to take on the huge challenge of helping the public understand what qualified immunity is (and what it isn’t). So in 2021, IJ launched our Americans Against Qualified Immunity activism initiative. This spring, we celebrated a major landmark in that effort by welcoming our 10,000th member.
Like many immigrants, Theslet Benoir and his wife, Clemene Bastien, came to the United States to escape violence and oppression—and to control their own destiny. But unfortunately, as has happened to many IJ clients, their American Dream was cut short by petty bureaucrats who undermine the very laws they’re elected to uphold.
Beyond the Brief: Ruling Lets Gov’t TRESPASS on 96% of PRIVATE Land in the U.S.
Your home is supposed to be your castle. But what about the land your castle sits on? We discuss why it is that most private land in America gets no protection from warrantless government surveillance.
How does history inform our interpretation of the Constitution? In all kinds of ways, it seems, and perhaps in too many of them. We once again look at how history and the Second Amendment are mixing together, in a case from the Eighth Circuit.
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