Senility Or Worse On The Bench
We have this thing, it’s called the Constitution, and it has, you know, rules and limits on the government. Like unreasonable search and siezure being unacceptable, and a certain implicit expectation of privacy associated with those limits.
The court was aware of this when they ruled that authorities could not point see-inside devices, such as infrared detectors, at your house and gather valid evidence of anything.
The court somehow lost its collective mind in the interim, or in similar yet contrary prior rulings that they base this new one on, so now it is “legal” for drug sniffing dogs to check out your car at any old traffic stop or whatever other non-reason inspires the jackbooted thugs authorities in question.
Come on, “justices.” The war on drugs is hopelessly wrong. Why encourage it by trashing the very thing you are supposed to have the reading comprehension to uphold?
Testify!
While not entirely unexpected (this court has a bad record on fourth amendment cases), it’s still horrible.
The thing I found most surprising was that Scalia voted with the majority. One can usually count on Scalia to be an enumerated-rights-absolutist.
Posted by jpe on 01/25 at 10:53 AMper berretta; don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time
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