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To: Sopater

“The Constitution uses the word ‘property’ numerous times,” Alito told Loeb, “but the word ‘property’ doesn’t appear in the Fourth Amendment. It talks about effects, which is defined by Samuel Johnson’s dictionary as ‘goods or movables.’... Is it your argument that any property interest whatsoever falls within the definition of effects if we are going to go back to an originalist interpretation of the Fourth Amendment?”

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What it means is Alito is more originalist than Gorsuch.


55 posted on 02/01/2018 2:39:10 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Moonman62

A distinction without a difference. A car is a moveable.


56 posted on 02/01/2018 2:42:58 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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