Yes, and it was Scalia that wrote it, I believe.
Crazy. The “war on some drugs” was more important to him than the Constitution.
Yeah. Scalia, who’s good most of the time, has this disturbing tendency to issue “but what if that inconveniences the cops?” rulings, as if that were more important than whether the rights of private citizens were unnecessarily limited. If the cops wanted to be the top dogs, they should have stayed private citizens. The Constitution had already been in force for centuries when they joined the force. They can’t very well express shock and dismay at its contents now.
That’s why I’ve never understood all the fawning over Scalia here.
He says the right things, often votes the right way, but at heart he’s a statist, not a conservative.