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Courts are political. That's the lesson i want people to take from this. The idea that there is an objective or absolutist interpretation of the Constitution is
by jmyeet 4y ago
Courts are political. That's the lesson i want people to take from this. The idea that there is an objective or absolutist interpretation of the Constitution is not true and has never been true. That too is a political ideology.
This case is just another example of how the Fourth Amendment is essentially dead.
This decision is just more overreach in the same vein as civil asset forfeiture, which gets around "unreasonable search and seizure" by basically saying the money and the property seized has no rights and uses some twisted logic that allows a civil action against property for a perceived criminal violation even though no criminal complaint is made. It's ludicrous.
An originalist interpretation fo the Constitution is propaganda, nothing more. The idea was also invented in the 1970s and 1980s. Don't fall for it.
Courts as a general rule side with prosecutors, law enforcement (qualified immunity anyone?) and the wealthy. The pseudo-intellectual hand-wringing is just a pretense for political views.