I don't know if you meant it, but being in someone's pocket implies a financial relationship. I've never heard the claim before that organizations affiliated wi

I don't know if you meant it, but being in someone's pocket implies a financial relationship. I've never heard the claim before that organizations affiliated with the police are paying court members for friendly decisions. Here is a 2018 case [0] where Thomas, widely seen as the most ideologically conservative, and often accused of receiving inappropriately valuable gifts from wealthy conservatives, agreed that a 4th ammendment violation occurred when an officer entered someone's curtilage without a warrant to investigate a stolen vehicle. And here is a 2021 case [1] where Thomas again concurs that an officer may not follow you into your home without a warrant just because he was pursuing you under the belief you committed a misdemeanor. (In both cases Thomas makes a separate point about evidence admissibility. He believes that federal courts cannot compel state courts to throw out evidence obtained by 4th ammendment violation. If that is to be done, the state government must impose that constraint on itself. He proposes other permissible remedies for such violations.) [0] https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-1027 https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-1027 [1] https://www.oyez.org/cases/2020/20-18 https://www.oyez.org/cases/2020/20-18