4 hours ago
Third party doctrine is a loophole for the 4A: "The justices pointed to Google’s own privacy policy as a kind of consent form. “In the case before us, Google went beyond subtle indicators,” they wrote. “Google expressly informed its users that one should not expect any privacy when using its services.”
The court took that disclosure, buried in the fine print of a sprawling legal document, as proof that users had signed away their Fourth Amendment rights."
6 hours ago
The 4th Amendment might as well not exist at this point.
15 hours ago
Shaving the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizure paper thin. That's a problem with US jurisprudence. You may technically have a right, but the interpretation of the words are so odd, you practically don't have that right.
14 hours ago
The Bill of Rights was literally an afterthought.
4 hours ago
> The Bill of Rights was literally an afterthought.
If we frame it as "an afterthought", it was the better thought and the most important one.
The Bill of Rights was conceived as, and is, a fundamental part of the Constitution.
Not to mention that it practically defines what America is and how it differs from the rest of the world, without it the US can only be a feudal state.
There's no exaggeration in this, weakening the BoR is a rather transparent attempt to bring back feudalism cloaked in some sort of economic libertarianism.
4 hours ago
Constitution wasn't ratified until the bill of rights was added. What you've written is technically correct, but practically meaningless.
But I see that you didn't refute my main point.