Re:Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Track Your Cel...
by benchaney on Friday June 22, 2018 @02:40PM
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> Gorsuch appears to have dissented because he disagreed with the rationale of the decision and felt the 4th Amendment protections should be far stronger.
In that case why did he write a dissent and not a concurring opinion? Isn't that what they are for, or have I misunderstood?
Re:Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Track Your Cel...
by jessaustin on Friday June 22, 2018 @05:17PM
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It's my impression that Supreme Court justices write their opinions however the hell they want... as a practical matter if the votes were going the other way he probably would have written a "dissenting concurrence" rather than a "concurring dissent".
Re:Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Track Your Cel...
by mosheroperandi on Saturday June 23, 2018 @06:17AM
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Sometimes. The reason he voted against is because he's so aggressively trying to rearchitect the past several decades of 4th amendment jurisprudence that the defendant would have needed to include a very different set of arguments to meet his standards. Gorsuch states that there's a good chance these records are "papers" that the defendant has at least some property interest in, but that the defendant failed to properly raise this argument and therefore waved it by default (so Gorsuch must decide against). He then basically ends with a plea for future defendants to include a set of arguments based on his preferred property-centric regime so he can decide in their favor.
Gorsuch appears to have dissented because he disagreed with the rationale of the decision and felt the 4th Amendment protections should be far stronger.