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A comment on EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border. Parent comment

Re:EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border by arca_vorago on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @02:32AM (#16263552)
The SCOTUS has been wrong, egregiously so, many times, and this overreliance on their views amplifies the very real problem of stare decisis and the bad precedents we allow it to set, especially when people confuse dictum (commentary) with order and findings.

One of my favorite examples of this: Wickard v. Filburn

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Re:EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border by bdowling on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @05:38AM (#16264252)
Laws passed by Congress and signed by the President can overrule the Court. And if the Court finds that the law is unconstitutional, Congress and the States can amend the Constitution. But who has time for all that?
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