This is bad folks. This will end warrants as they currently exist.

  • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Small chance this gets thru the court as it is currently structured (too many conservatives who would doubtlessly not let a liberal president have a victory even if it wasn't just a front for gun confiscation). Bad omen going forward though.

    Justice Department argued that warrants should not be “presumptively required when a government official’s action is objectively grounded in a non-investigatory public interest, such as health or safety.”

    I'm sure that would never be manipulated at all, it's not like the article says, just 2 paragraphs prior, that

    In jurisdictions that have extended the community caretaking exception to homes, “everything from loud music to leaky pipes have been used to justify warrantless invasion of the home.”

    Fucking reactionaries, anything to avoid addressing the material conditions underlying every fucking mass shooting. This should be a bit more concerning vis a vis guns.