{"id":61775,"date":"2025-08-26T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61775"},"modified":"2025-08-27T17:37:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:37:02","slug":"atl-a-search-so-obviously-unconstitutional-that-a-high-school-student-would-know-its-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61775","title":{"rendered":"ATL: a &#8220;search so obviously unconstitutional that a &#8216;high school student&#8217; would know it\u2019s illegal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ATL: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/federal-judge-slams-the-lawlessness-of-trumps-d-c-takeover\/?utm_campaign=Above%20the%20Law%20Daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8nfYKbC_d0Ofs_qmvsBXgZBBhbXH92tr53f_vGKAxW4jAZk-dsQ8Lca-RMGngnNzXv4imYORvqW4qiLaYxYmvC_zy-Kw&amp;_hsmi=377768532&amp;utm_content=377768532&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">Federal Judge Slams The \u2018Lawlessness\u2019 Of Trump\u2019s D.C. Takeover<\/a> by Kathryn Rubino. These guys think they have Art. II license to violate the law?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Federal magistrate judge Zia M. Faruqui is not happy about Donald Trump\u2019s authoritarian takeover of Washington D.C. \u2014 and the resulting disrespect for basic constitutional rights. Yesterday in his courtroom was the case of Torez Riley, a Black man charged with unlawful possession of a firearm. Riley was on his way to a Trader Joe\u2019s when stopped by law enforcement, who searched his bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Faruqui called the search so obviously unconstitutional that a \u201chigh school student\u201d would know it\u2019s illegal. And it\u2019s \u201cirrelevant\u201d that the search turned up a gun when the search itself is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe police are out there looking for everybody, and it seems they\u2019re looking for people that look like you,\u201d Faruqui said. \u201cYou can\u2019t go into a grocery store without getting stopped and illegally searched.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, there are reports Riley\u2019s arrest was a \u201cpoint of contention\u201d in the Department of Justice as many there recognized the unconstitutional nature of the detention, and on Monday the government moved to dismiss the charges \u201cin the interests of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATL: Federal Judge Slams The \u2018Lawlessness\u2019 Of Trump\u2019s D.C. Takeover by Kathryn Rubino. These guys think they have Art. II license to violate the law?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-arrests","category-stop-and-frisk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61785,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61775\/revisions\/61785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}