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Correct, the 4th amendment doesn't give you an unrestricted right to privacy, but the court argued that such a right existed through other precedent and Roe v W
by fzeroracer 4y ago
Correct, the 4th amendment doesn't give you an unrestricted right to privacy, but the court argued that such a right existed through other precedent and Roe v Wade.
So by that argument: Do you agree that the government has the right to ban encryption and other details relating to privacy? Because if you want to argue that there is no constitutional right to privacy then that's the route you get to go down. Alito is arguing that if it's not directly in the constitution it does not exist.
Frankly I'm not willing to accept any challenge to Roe v Wade because the people doing so aim to destroy abortion no matter how many other rights or precedent they have to trample over. If abortion is banned they will stop at nothing to destroy encryption and privacy in order to prosecute anyone that ever has an abortion, even across state lines.
- FeepingCreature 4y agoFight for a constitutional amendment ratifying an explicit right to privacy then. I agree that it would be good if we had that. But just because it would be good doesn't mean we can pretend it already is so.
- ng12 4y ago> Do you agree that the government has the right to ban encryption and other details relating to privacy? I think it would be very likely that a law passed by the legislative branch banning encryption would not be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. I don't think there's much room for debate here. Digital privacy and abortion are issues that must be handled in the legislative branch, not the judicial one.