THE SUPREME COURT DECISION:
So the police lied and took his guns with no warrant and no clear suspicion that he was even unstable. But they took his guns anyway.
The case was resolved at the Supreme Court Monday. The usually divided court was united, protecting the man’s rights 9-0. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the unanimous opinion, “stating that law enforcement can execute ‘many civic tasks in modern society,’ but there is ‘not an open-ended license to perform them anywhere.’” “The very core of the Fourth Amendment,” Thomas wrote, is the “right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable search and seizure.”
The biggest mistake 'Dubya' made as president, was failing to nominate Justice Thomas to be the new Chief Justice. Instead, for reasons known only to himself, he nominated (& stuck us with) the judicial equivalent of Gumby...