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>Scalia wrote a few pro privacy decisions, but Scalia is in no way the "defender of the 4th amendment" He never said Scalia was perfect. He implied that he was

• modriano 4y ago
  Even if that was his point, it's wrong. Breyer (interestingly, Breyer was mugged and robbed at least twice) and Ginsburg often sided with the conservatives in voting to invade our privacy, but Kagan and Sotomayor are pretty reliable defenders of privacy, and from the arguments I've listened to so far from this term, I'm confident KBJ holds even stronger pro-privacy 4A views than Kagan and Sotomayor. And even with Breyer and Ginsburg voting against privacy somewhat regularly, in the biggest 4A case of the past few years, Carpenter v US [0], Breyer, Ginsburg, Kagan, Sotomayor, and CJ Roberts voted that the 4A protects individuals against warrantless searches of cell-site records (ie the cell tower records that include frequent pings of every cell phone using that tower). So even if that was OPs point, it's wrong. [0] https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-402 https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-402