Dicta isn't binding. The only thing that is binding in a Court opinion is a holding. Go to law school and get a J.D. and you'd learn these things.
There is nothing reasonable about a no knock entry.
A no-knock entry is presumptively unreasonable, unless such entry is justified by limited exigent circumstances. You don't get to decide what is reasonable under the 4th Amendment. The Constitution hasn't delegated that authority to you.
You have indicated their utility in limited instances. By the numbers, it is much less limited today than 30 years ago. To what do you attribute the increase?
A combination of factors. Greater Population, more violent criminals, and to some extent overuse.
We the people have the final say, libertine or otherwise.
So each person is free to make their own law? A law unto themselves? That's anarchy, not liberty.
>You don’t get to decide what is reasonable under the 4th Amendment. The Constitution hasn’t delegated that authority to you.
Really, then what is the point of the Tenth Amendment, which says “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people” ?
The Constitution did NOT delegate to the United States the ability to define, or redefine, the English language. In fact, the First Amendment’s right to petition the government is EXACTLY an admission that the Government can wrong people: this INCLUDES holding such no-knock entries as “unreasonable.” Can you find me ten Citizens off the street in 48 hours who will agree that “someone barging into their house unannounced at 4 AM” is ‘reasonable,’ if so then I will GLADLY concede the point and consider no-knock warrants as ‘reasonable’ and therefore Constitutional.
Actually, I do get to decide what reasonable is, as others have done. If I am forced to do so at 3:00 AM as my door is broken in, I can assure you that your opinion and that of the USSC will be the furthest from my mind.
The constitutions check on the judiciary rests with congress, who answers directly to we the people.
I wouldn't call citizens contacting their representatives with their concerns anarchy.
Overuse? How about abuse?