WaPo: The Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment irrelevance

WaPo: The Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment irrelevance by Radley Balko:

A few weeks ago, fellow Post blogger Orin Kerr put up a post arguing that contrary to what you may commonly read, on Fourth Amendment cases the Supreme Court usually is as likely to rule against the government as in favor of it.

He makes a convincing argument. But I think there’s another factor we need to consider: In the real world, the decisions that uphold Fourth Amendment rights often don’t matter.