John Whitehead

Court Ruling Strips Apartment Dwellers of Fourth Amendment Rights – Leaves Hallways Open to Warrantless Police Surveillance & Arrests

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Pushing back against a lower court ruling that leaves apartment dwellers vulnerable to warrantless surveillance and arrests, The Rutherford Institute has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that the hallways outside apartments are protected curtilage which…

The Dangers of Going Back to School After a Year of COVID-19 Lockdowns

“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.”—Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes Once upon a…

The Right to Bodily Integrity: Nobody Wins and We All Lose in the COVID-19 Showdown

“We’ve reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and colonoscopies without the suspect’s consent. And these procedures aren’t…

Civil Liberties Attorney John Whitehead Issues Guidance on How To Request a Religious Exemption for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in the Workplace

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Responding to concerns from employees in both the public and private sector about workplace requirements regarding COVID-19 vaccines and a desire to express their religious objections to such requirements, The Rutherford Institute has issued guidance and…

Supreme Court Watch: Can the Government Require That Citizens Prove the Need for Self-Protection in Order To Carry a Gun Outside the Home?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Can the government require that citizens prove they need self-protection in order to carry a gun outside the home? That is the question before the U.S. Supreme Court in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Assn. v.…

T Is for Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z

“Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so…

A New State of Segregation: Vaccine Cards Are Just the Beginning

“The things we were worried would happen are happening.”—Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York Imagine it: a national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status but also allows the…