Sunday, June 04, 2006
We Don’t Need No Constitution, We All Prefer Thought Control
Via John Cole via Radley Balko, here is the latest case coming in a couple years to a Supreme Court near you. That should be completely unnecessary. It’s a cut and dried, cast in stone, no brainer case in which idiot California justices ruled 6-1 to castrate the Fourth Amendment.
Yup. Now if cops suspect you’ve been drinking and then driving, or can even pretend to suspect that, they can break and enter without a warrant, drag you from your bed, extract and test your blood.
Tell me the cops will never do this just because they can. Tell me they will only use it in hot-pursuit style, arriving at your house not long after you, having followed your sleepy drunken ass home from working late the bar.
Yeah, right.
So in a couple years we can look forward to the Supremes wisely correcting this clear Constitutional pillage, just as they did with Kelo.
Oh wait…
And hey, since I mentioned Kelo, let’s recap:
Kelo-related posts:
Will The Supremes And Bad Lawyering Perpetrate A Constitutional Travesty?
United States Constitution, 1788 - 2005: Promise Unkept
Bad Precedent
Additional Kelo Fallout Thoughts
Will the Money Be Followed?
Kelo and Raich: The Root of the Supreme Court Problem?
Olek V. New London Case
Kelo and "Fair" Value
Boycotting Can Be Hard
Becker and Posner on Kelo and Eminent Domain
Kelo, IOLTA and Drugs - Oh My
Sama on Kelo, Disney, and Boston's West End Tragedy
Was Kelo The Lost Battle That Won The War?
You Thought The Kelo Outcome Couldn't Be Worse?