The Courts - Farther Down the Road to Hell

This is an extraordinary case: Our court approves, without blinking, a police sweep of a person's home without a warrant, without probable cause, without reasonable suspicion and without exigency - in other words, with nothing at all to support the entry except the curiosity police always have about what they might find if they go rummaging around a suspect’s home. Once inside, the police managed to turn up a gun "in plain view" - stuck between two cushions of the living room couch - and we reward them by upholding the search.

Did I mention that this was an entry into somebody's home, the place where the protections of the Fourth Amendment are supposedly at their zenith?

- Federal Judge Alex Kozinski, dissenting in U.S. v. Lemus, as cited in this essay by Kevin Baker

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Do you honestly believe that a group of elitist lawyers in funny dresses want a filthy peasant such as yourself to be anything other than a docile tax serf?

If you really believe that, you will have an extraordinarily difficult time in the coming months and years.

Tempus fugit.