by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos. More evidence the government is not us. Drug Enforcement Administration agents have been accessing personal medical files without a warrant, generating a backlash from doctors and privacy advocates who say the practice is intrusive and unconstitutional -- and have taken the agency to court. “It’s just not right,” ... MORE
Showing posts with label warrantless search. Show all posts
Showing posts with label warrantless search. Show all posts
DEA Blasted For No-Warrant Searches Of Patient Records
by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos. More evidence the government is not us. Drug Enforcement Administration agents have been accessing personal medical files without a warrant, generating a backlash from doctors and privacy advocates who say the practice is intrusive and unconstitutional -- and have taken the agency to court. “It’s just not right,” ... MOREEven In The Age Of Medical Marijuana, Court Rules Smell Of Pot Can Be Used As Pretense For Warrantless Search
by Tom Barlas. A New Jersey’s man attempt to use the state’s medical marijuana law to overturn a criminal conviction went up in smoke this week. A state appeals court ruled Tuesday that the smell of marijuana can still be used by law enforcement as the grounds for a warrantless search. The appeals court rejected George A. Meyer’s argument that ... MOREHenry Austin: North Dakota Becomes The First American State To Legalize Deployment Of Armed Drones By Police
The state gets a new toy. Armed drones could be used by police in the US state of North Dakota after local lawmakers legalized their use. While they will be limited to “less than lethal” weapons, tear gas, tasers, rubber bullets and pepper spray could all be used in theory by the remote controlled flying machines. In a classic case of unintended ... MOREChris Christie Has No Problem With Warrantless Searches
by Aaron Morrison. Thinks arbitrary stop and frisk is good idea. If Chris Christie were to run and win a mayoral election in New York
City, he would bring back a racially discriminatory police strategy that
current Mayor Bill de Blasio did away with two years. Christie, who is
governor of New Jersey, told the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe
talk show ... MOREMark Meckler: The Overarmed And Dangerous Police State
More guns than brains makes for a bad combo. Imagine waking up at 5:30 a.m. in your third-floor apartment to a SWAT team raiding your family with guns drawn. You’re barely clothed, but you immediately grab your seven-year-old and 18-month-old daughters. You begin praying, hoping that everything will be okay and you will all survive. ... MOREBaltimore Attorneys Reviewing 2,000 Cases Where Police Secretly Used Phone Tracking Devices On Petty Criminals
by Wils Robinson. Lawyers in Baltimore are challenging almost 2,000 criminal cases where police secretly used cell phone tracking devices. Defense attorneys will reportedly ask the judge to 'throw out' a number of the cases where cops tracked down a suspect with stingray and reopen a 'large number' of others. It is a device that acts as a cellphone ... MOREOrwellian Justice Upholds NSA Spying on Americans: Court of Appeals Upholds Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
by Stephen Lendman. Virtually unrestricted NSA data mining tramples on Fourth Amendment rights brazenly. In December 2013, Federal District Court of the District of Columbia Judge Richard Leon ruled NSA spying unconstitutional, saying: The threshold issue is whether plaintiffs have a reasonable expectation of privacy that is violated when the ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: The Raping Of America
Mile markers on the road to fascism.“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”—Martin Luther King Jr. There’s an ill will blowing across the country. The economy is tanking. The people are directionless, and politics provides no answer. And like former regimes, the militarized police have stepped up ... MOREDo Christians & Conservatives Really Desire A Police State?
by Pastor Chuck Baldwin. Washington's criminal class is bipartisan. A Nazi-like, Stalin-like, Mao-like Police State is being constructed in earnest in America. It started with the Patriot Act in 2001. And it has only gotten worse every year since. And, in reality, this burgeoning Police State has no serious opposition–with the exception of 75 million + gun owners. ... MOREDrug War Update - Jacob Sullum: Texas Cops Sexually Assault Another Motorist In The Name Of Pot Prohibition
Another warrantless roadside cavity probe. What is it with Texas cops and roadside vaginal searches? Last May I described
three strikingly similar cases in which Texas troopers fruitlessly
looked for marijuana in the private parts of women pulled over for minor
traffic offenses. The incidents were outrageous enough to inspire a new ... MORETim Cushing: Getting Behind The Wheel Is Pretty Much Kissing Your 4th Amendment Protections Goodbye
Cars are for criminals. There's been more good news than bad concerning the Fourth Amendment
recently. In addition to the Supreme Court's ruling that searches of
cellphones incident to arrest now require a warrant, various circuit court decisions on cell site location info
and the surreptitious use of GPS tracking devices may see the nation's ... MOREJohn W Whitehead: Drivers, Beware Of The Costly, Deadly Dangers Of Traffic Stops In The American Police State
"Comply or die" is the new police state motto. Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a
bit like playing Russian roulette: most of the time you will emerge
relatively unscathed, although decidedly poorer and less secure about
your rights, but there’s always the chance that an encounter will turn
deadly. The odds weren’t ... MOREA Bogus Warrant, A Burned Baby, And An Immoral War
by Jacob Sullum. Bad cops manufacture probable cause. Shortly after midnight on May 28, 2014, Habersham County, Georgia, Deputy Sheriff Nikki Autry asked Magistrate Judge James Butterworth for a "no knock" warrant to search a house on Lakeview Heights Circle in Cornelia. In her application, Autry, a special agent with the Mountain Judicial ... MORE
Feds Deploy Warrantless Database Fishing Expeditions
by Mark J. Fitzgibbons. While focusing their resources and political energy on the NSA’s mass collection of metadata, privacy advocates have neglected the most dangerous institutionalized violations of the Fourth Amendment: administrative subpoenas. Now a United States District Court judge in Texas has ruled for the Drug Enforcement Agency ... MOREFeds Can Read Every Email You Opened Without A Warrant
by Zack Whittaker. It's no longer a surprise that the government is reading your
emails. What you might not know is that it can readily read most of your
email without a warrant. Any email or social networking message you've opened that's more than six months old can also be accessed by every law enforcement official in government
-- ... MOREDid The TSA Agent Steal Jersey Honoring Yankee Legend From The Luggage Of His Window? She Thinks They Did.
from CBS New York. The widow of a baseball icon was heartbroken Friday night over a missing jersey that she believes was stolen. Last month, the Yankees gave Soot Zimmer a jersey in honor of her late husband, Don Zimmer, who served as bench coach for the team for several years. But the jersey never made it back to Florida with Soot ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Neither Freedom Nor Safety
Doing away with probable cause for the illusion of security. In their continuous efforts to create the impression that the government is doing something to keep Americans safe, politicians in Washington have misled and lied to the public. They have violated their oaths to uphold the Constitution. They have created a false sense of security. And ... MOREArizona Court Upholds Warrantless Search At Wrong House
State lawyers in robes castrate the Fourth Amendment. An Arizona court has upheld a woman's marijuana convictions based on a warrantless search conducted when sheriff's deputies were sent to a home in response to a 911 "hang-up" call that was treated as an emergency. The Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected Starr Bennett's argument ... MORE
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