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The Supreme Court found a constitutional right to privacy in their Roe v. Wade decision.
The Supreme Court can’t so easily let Obama ride rough over their ruling. Oh wait, Chief Traitor Benedict Roberts... Never mind!
This is a case of a search incident to arrest. In a search incident to arrest the police may without a warrant search the person himself or the immediate surroundings for the protection of the police.
It seems to me that a person does have REP in his cellphone and unless the police have probable cause, I don't see any valid exception that would allow a warrantless search of a cellphone incident to an arrest.
Leni
Come on, people! Wrap yourselves in the flag and be Super Patriots! If this, that, or whatever is for “national security,” we don’t need no steenkin Constitution! All hail The State!
Don’t own a cell phone. I borrow one on long trips say to doc( 200 miles round trip or more) but always take the care out...just precautionary...
I do love what the ‘War on Drugs’ has done for my liberty!
If it had been Bush, the NYT would have it on its front page every day.
I thought liebruls were against police overreach. Only when there’s a Republican in the White House, eh?
“Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches.”
Anyone, who doesn’t realize that this has been done since 2009 is suffering from severe liberal self inflicted brain damage.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3064092/posts
Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
The Washington Post ^ | Ellen Nakashima
Posted on Sunday, September 08, 2013 6:59:34 AM by originalbuckeye
The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material.
In addition, the court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to six years — and more under special circumstances, according to the documents, which include a recently released 2011 opinion by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, then chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.