[mysterio]

Reasonable expectation of privacy is not a footnote attached to the Fourth Amendment. It is an invention of statist, pro-government justices so that they could keep the authoritarian laws that were their personal policy preferences.

[Enchante]

The word "unreasonable" in the first clause is the crucial qualifier of the whole amendment - it does not say "there shall never be any searches or seizures under any circumstances" it say there shall be no "unreasonable" searches and seizures. Defining what is reasonable and unreasonable is not some worthless diversion, though I certainly agree that many SCOTUS justices, not to mention Congress-critters, are untrustworthy guides to reason.