sayanythingblog: Expert: John Doe raids raise ‘troubling’ Fourth Amendment questions

sayanythingblog: Expert: John Doe raids raise ‘troubling’ Fourth Amendment questions by M.D. Kittle:

MADISON, Wis. – Troubling.

That’s how one Fourth Amendment expert describes the manner in which search warrants were executed in a politically charged John Doe investigation into dozens of conservative groups.

“It seems to me somewhat absurd if what (investigators) were looking for were campaign finance violations,” Robert M. Bloom, professor of law at Boston College Law School, said of the predawn searches and seizures at the homes of targeted conservatives in a nearly two-year-old probe critics say is rife with civil rights violations.

UNREASONABLE SEARCH? A civil right lawsuit against prosecutors in a politically charged John Doe investigation has raised serious Fourth Amendment questions about raids on homes of conservative targets.