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From Writs of Assistance to Your Cell Phone, the Fourth Amendment's Long FightThe Fourth Amendment exists because British officers searched colonial homes on general warrants. That principle now decides if police may search your phone.What the ATF is, what it can do and why gun owners distrust itWhat the ATF is, what it can do, the limits Congress set in 1986, the record behind gun owners' suspicion, and the case for and against folding it away.One Judge, One Injunction, One Country, and How Federal Courts Block PolicyHow one district judge can freeze a federal policy, what a TRO and an injunction are, and why both parties argue the power depending on who is President.Grant, the Enforcement Acts and the Federal Government's War on the First KlanThe best conservative case for federal power is that it once crushed organized terror against ordinary citizens. The argument, the record and the retreat.How Ulysses Grant used a brand-new Justice Department against the KlanGrant built the first sustained federal campaign against terror aimed at Black voters, and later courts cut it back. Here is the story in order.What a federal background check covers, and what it never didHow the Brady Act and NICS work, who is barred from buying a gun, and the gaps the debate is really about: private sales, missing records, the three-day rule.