[newheart]

Really quite unusual for the liberals to know the 4th amendment better than the conservatives (except Scalia, of course.)

As a reminder the 4th explicitly guarantees "the right of the people to be secure in their persons."

Scalia is right. And like a broken clock, the libs got this one correct.

[Mr Rogers]

In what sense is a person who has been arrested “secure in their persons”?

Has anyone commenting actually READ the decision, or know what is at issue?

“Held: When officers make an arrest supported by probable cause to hold for a serious offense and bring the suspect to the station to be detained in custody, taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee’s DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing,a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.”

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-207_d18e.pdf