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by keernan3 hours ago |
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upvoteby keernan4 minutes ago|
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upvoteby otterley1 hours ago|
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Egregious, yes. Concerning, yes. Illegal, I’m not so sure. As a fellow attorney, why do you think they are illegal?[1] Maybe they should be, but our jurisprudence since the 1960s (the “put down the dirty hippies” age) seems to treat the the 4th Amendment not as an expansive right to be left alone but as a narrow one that treats only one’s home as a privacy zone.

I found crim pro to be a very distressing and depressing course.

Also, that last link to The NY Times article is broken.

[1] To suggest that the Government doesn’t know what’s legal and what isn’t stretches credulity. They know; and they’re going to ride as close to that line as possible when motivated by their bosses.

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upvoteby keernan1 hours ago|
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Just off the top of my head all three examples I provided violate the First Amendment. It is Constitutionally prohibited for the government to track and gather information on citizens because they exercised their First Amendment rights.
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upvoteby otterley28 minutes ago|
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Wait, we just jumped from the Fourth to the First Amendment. Not only did we change subjects, but it's difficult for me to understand how your examples implicate the First Amendment.
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upvoteby keernan18 minutes ago|
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My post neither stated or implied the constitutional provisions. The easiest and clearest provision that has been violated is the Government gathering direct data to classify citizens based upon their expression of their First Amendment rights. That is very apparent in every single example in my post.

I'm not going to engaged with someone on HN debating legal principles regarding something so straight forward. And, as I said, this is off the top of my head. It's basic constitutional law which I haven't found necessary to research. After that sentence I googled McCarthyism and found that SCOTUS ruled in multiple cases that Senator McCarthy and his supporters violated the First Amendment rights of the citizens they accused of communism. I haven't read the opinions, but I am confident they ( and many others ) support the very basic principles I speak of.

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upvoteby otterley5 minutes ago|
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Respectfully, this is all making me very strongly doubt your bona fides. There are many clues in the above comment that suggest you aren't who you claim to be.
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upvoteby keernan26 minutes ago|
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>>To suggest that the Government doesn’t know what’s legal and what isn’t stretches credulity.

I neither make nor imply any such suggestion.

>>they’re going to ride as close to that line as possible

This administration has already overtly failed to comply with valid Federal Court Orders.

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