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ticapnews Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 12:32 PM
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39. "The Fourth Amendment protects people and not places"
Is it just me, or does this language essentially end 4th Amendment protection? Isn't your home a place? Your car? The 4th Amendment no longer covers those because they are places, not people.

Or as our about-to-be confirmed AG would say: "This ruling renders the 4th Amendment quaint." And, the need for things like search warrants and probable cause, is now something for us to read about in history books.

Until they are rewritten, of course.
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