Grits For Breakfast today: Is Fourth Amendment dead or just in a coma? Debating when to pull the plug:<\/p>\n
These days, being a fan of the Fourth Amendment is a bit like being an aficionado of horse racing or boxing … a bit anachronistic and out of sync with the times, doomed to tilting at mostly irrelevant windmills that nobody else around you cares about. Until recently, I might have said Americans care less about the Fourth Amendment than, say, the heavyweight boxing championship. But after a recent, lackadaisical heavyweight title bout coupled with renewed Fourth Amendment interest from grass-roots conservative quarters, perhaps Grits would revise that to say Americans care more about the Fourth Amendment than boxing, though probably still less than soccer.<\/p>\n
. . .<\/p>\n
The Fourth Amendment may indeed be dead. Certainly its corpus appears lifeless and inert in the hands of the current US Supreme Court. But if so, the question becomes, will it become a martyr for the cause of renewing personal privacy in the digital era, or just another nameless, faceless battlefield casualty? One wonders: Will anyone mourn the Fourth Amendment’s death, or will everyone just move to their new .secure domain listing and go on their merry way? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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