No GPS Without Warrant

Monday 23 January 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

When SCOTUS decides a case 9-0 we can be assured that either we the people have been royally fucked by the judiciary, or justice has been served and the state has been properly bitch slapped for making what is clearly a very shitty law or method to enforce the law. In a decision released today, United States v Jones, a case about the constitutionality of placing GPS devices on a person’s car without a search warrant, justice has been served. From the decision:

The Government’s attachment of the GPS device to the vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. Pp. 3–12.
(a) The Fourth Amendment protects the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” Here, the Government’s physical intrusion on an “effect” for the purpose of obtaining information constitutes a “search.” This type of encroachment on an area enumerated in the Amendment would have been considered a search within the meaning of the Amendment at the time it was adopted.

Good for us.

2012-01-23  »  madlibertarianguy