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Stripped of Their Rights

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided in April that some kinds of student strip-searches are unconstitutional. In the case, a Michigan class was strip-searched after a girl reported $364 stolen. Male students took off their shirts and underwear in a shower room, and girls were stripped to their underwear in a locker room. The search was deemed unconstitutional because it involved a large group of non-consenting students, and because the search was not aimed at preventing danger; it was merely a result of material theft. However, the court did not find grounds to punish the adults who conducted the search because the law was not made clear before the incident.

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Would Leahy have approved of the strip search, if the warrant had expressly permitted strip searching the children of the alleged perp?

Or would Leahy second-guess the judge who approved the warrant?