Kane and Lew: Did you catch that one word from the Fourth Amendment that makes this provision an utterly meaningless “protection” from governmental searches? It’s the word “unreasonable.” You and I are protected against “unreasonable searches and seizures” by government officials. But unreasonable is a weasel-word, that must be subjected to interpretation. And who will make the authoritative interpretation?: the government courts.
3:20 pm on July 29, 2010