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Once again, I heartily endorse the wisdom of the Founding Fathers and their radical concept of separation of powers. Huzzah!<\/p>\n

All nine justices of the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police officers violated the Fourth Amendment rule against unreasonable search and seizure when they attached a GPS device to a suspect\u2019s car and tracked it for 28 days without a warrant. But the court was split down the middle on the reasoning. Four justices focused on the physical trespass that occurred when the police attached the device, four focused on the violation of the suspect\u2019s \u201creasonable expectation of privacy,\u201d and the final justice, Sonia Sotomayor, endorsed both theories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go read the rest.<\/a> Now, if the Justices would turn their attentions back to the question of the constitutionality of the Patriot Act, <\/em>the Founders would stop rolling over in their graves.<\/em><\/p>\n

UPDATE: A friend of mine sends: \u201cHere\u2019s the full text of the ruling for super-nerds<\/a>,\u201d to which I\u2019ll add for all you sea-lawyers.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, I heartily endorse the wisdom of the Founding Fathers and their radical concept of separation of powers. Huzzah! All nine justices of the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police officers violated the Fourth Amendment rule against unreasonable search and seizure when they attached a GPS device to a suspect\u2019s car and tracked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[31,142,102,35],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","tag-in-the-news","tag-justice","tag-politics","tag-virtues"],"yoast_head":"\nSCOTUS Holds That Warrantless GPS Tracking is Unconstitutional UPDATED<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Once again, I heartily endorse the wisdom of the Founding Fathers and their radical concept of separation of powers. Huzzah! 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