While the mainstream media is focused on the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the debacle that is ObamaCare, a case with dire consequences has slipped through the cracks.
Earlier this week, the 9 robed ones ruled that inmates could be strip-searched before entering a jail population, even for minor offenses. Civil libertarians seen this as yet another tooth pulled from the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures without a warrant.
The decision was 5-4, with Justice Anthony Kennedy siding with the more conservative contingent of the Court.
The background of the case is almost more appalling than the ruling. Albert Florence was arrested for an “unpaid” traffic violation and strip-searched twice at two separate New Jersey facilities within six days…all the while being held in custody without a hearing.
According to NPR, failure to pay a fine is not a crime in New Jersey. To top it all off, Florence had already paid the fine.
Once again employing fear as justification, Justice Kennedy cited terrorism as an excuse to further eviscerate the Constitution.
“One of the terrorists involved in the Sept. 11 attacks was stopped and ticketed for speeding just two days before hijacking Flight 93,” he wrote. Kenndedy added that Tim McVeigh, convicted of the Oklahoma City bombing, was orginally stopped for driving without a license plate.
What’s somewhat surprising–although the High Court has lately seemed to wipe its collective ass with the Fourth Amendment–is that this is the same court the struck down a strip-search performed on a student…for ibuprofen.
So next time you get booked on a disorderly conduct charge for doing something someone doesn’t like, be prepared to drop your drawers.
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There was another ruling at the same time. The 9 goof balls also ruled that a goverment informent can lie to a grand jury and is held imumed from a civil suit and cannot be procested in a court of law. Welcome to the police state.