Mark Wilson
The Fourth Amendment is not merely on life support. According to Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, it’s dead. Writing in a new iPad-oriented publication, The Daily, Chief Judge Kozinski and his law clerk, Stephanie Grace, gave the venerable amendment a eulogy and blamed all of us for its downfall.
They have a point. Our reasonable expectations of privacy have taken a downward turn in light of all the information that we give, voluntarily, to everyone from Kroger to Amazon. Did James Madison ever consider surrendering his privacy so that he could save 99 cents on a bag of potato chips? Curiously, The Federalist doesn’t say. [Read more…] about The Fourth Amendment’s Death Is Greatly Exaggerated . . . We Hope