Officials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.”

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    But they’re allowed to do that. SCOTUS believes everyone at or near a border or within eyeshot of their agents is ripe for phone searching and whatever else they want to do because they don’t care.

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      SCOTUS also said that black people born in America weren’t citizens and that rounding people up into concentration camps based solely on their race was A-OK. SCOTUS has a long history of tyrannical bullshit rulings, so what’s your point?

      Blatantly unconstitutional “rulings” don’t make DHS’s behavior legitimate; they only destroy the legitimacy of SCOTUS itself.

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        Oh I fully believe they would rule that the constitution only applies to men because women were property when it was written. It’s wrong but there’s no path to fix it without a lot of deaths so we can pass more needed amendments for privacy, civil rights, gun control, and politician ethics.