The 4th Amendment is probably, next to the First Amendment, the most recognizable to the average American. After all, how many times have we seen some television character answer the front door and politely ask the police waiting there if they have a warrant? The founders fashioned this amendment after having endured the uncertainty and tyranny of British soldiers conducting searches whenever the spirit moved them to do so, typically with no more cause than bare suspicion or vengeance. Unfortunately, the Fourth Amendment is singularly threatened in our modern society, and is threatened more now than ever.
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Tell a cop (and then a judge) he doesn’t have the right to search your car. Or that he can’t stop and roust you for being “in a known drug area.”
And yes, DWB is alive in some places (although not as prevalent as the race-whores would have you believe).
4th Amendment? It has long ago joined the 9th and 10th on the dustbin of prior known freedoms. As the 1st is about to.
>The founders fashioned this amendment after having endured the uncertainty and tyranny of British soldiers conducting searches whenever the spirit moved them to do so, typically with no more cause than bare suspicion or vengeance.
Do police do the same today?
Tell that to the cop who stops you @ a sobriety check point, shines a flashlight in your face, & says “Papers, please!” when you are simply minding your own business.
WHAT 4th Amendment?
We’re way beyond invasive searches in this country. We’re at the point now where the President decides if you can have your job, how much money you can make, how your business can be conducted and where. Soon, we’ll be told what kind of cars we can use, what kind of light bulbs, how much electricity and water, who knows where it will end?
APD is taking the forth amendment to a whole new level. DWI no refusal blood checks.
http://austin-texasdwi.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-refusal-dwi-policy-in-effect-despite.html