{"id":64994,"date":"2026-10-13T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64994"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:44:07","slug":"reason-are-warrantless-phone-searches-at-the-border-constitutional-the-supreme-court-may-soon-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64994","title":{"rendered":"Reason: Are Warrantless Phone Searches at the Border Constitutional? The Supreme Court May Soon Decide."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reason: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/10\/12\/are-warrantless-phone-searches-at-the-border-constitutional-the-supreme-court-may-soon-decide\/\">Are Warrantless Phone Searches at the Border Constitutional? The Supreme Court May Soon Decide.<\/a> by Amy Piekoff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The case of George Anibowei, a U.S. citizen who has had his phone searched at least five times at the border, shows just how invasive border agents have become. George Anibowei, a U.S. citizen, is a Texas-based immigration attorney with many clients battling the Department of Homeland Security. Border agents have searched his phone at least five times without a warrant as he returned to the United States. In the first search, agents copied the phone&#8217;s entire contents, including his confidential communications with clients. The government still has that data, and Anibowei still doesn&#8217;t know why it was kept or who has seen it. He now leaves his work phone at home when he travels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 29, the Supreme Court asked the federal government to respond to Anibowei&#8217;s petition, which asks whether the Fourth Amendment lets border agents search the contents of a phone without a warrant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: Are Warrantless Phone Searches at the Border Constitutional? The Supreme Court May Soon Decide. by Amy Piekoff:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-search","category-cell-phones","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64995,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64994\/revisions\/64995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}