The trashing of the constitution in the name of the war on drugs has been a pretty bi-partisan affair. Wouldn't you agree?
Definitely!
I generally don’t have a problem with most of the “war on drugs”.
That said, I hope the justices find this search to be illegal. I think a standard of “the sounds of evidence possibly being destroyed” would be a gaping loophole in the 4th Amendment that would allow law enforcement to peform warrantless searches in almost any situation.
Can a police officer discern the difference between the sounds of a law abiding citizen flushing after using the toilet and a drug using flushing his dope?