[NoLibZone]

 On June 16, 2014, President Obama nominated Kearney to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_A._Kearney

[E. Pluribus Unum]

What happened to “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear?”

I guess that only applies to the peasants.

[Lurker]

SCOTUS has already ruled on this. The judge will be slapped down.

L

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Just use hidden cameras ala Project Veritas.

Then they can’t arrest you until after you have them posted on YouTube.

[aimhigh]

But if I post the video online for a 1,000 people to see, doesn’t make me a journalist?

[Defiant]

That is as illogical as I have ever heard from a federal judiciary that says that dancing naked is speech.

[RIghtwardHo]

So is he saying that if you say “I am recording this for the purpose of being critical to the Government” it is OK???

I haven’t read the ruling, but if he does that is the most moronic ruling I’ve ever heard ... and I’ve herd/read some doozies.

[Don Corleone]

Tick tock tick tock watch the Constitution getting shredded.

[ArtDodger]

So, when approached by the police, I guess we need to tell them we are intending to use it as evidence.....That’ll make ‘em happy campers!

[Oberon]

Public servants, performing their public duties, in public, have no right to privacy where those duties are concerned. Off the job they’re private citizens, but on the job they’re fair game.

[tacticalogic]

The Third Circuit judge ruled that unless police are recorded with the "stated purpose of being critical of the government," any such video isn't protected speech.

How are you supposed to know if they're going to do anything you should be critical before it happens so you can start recording?

[Gay State Conservative]

A higher court will knock this down.

[Blue Highway]

The Third Circuit judge ruled that unless police are recorded with the "stated purpose of being critical of the government,"

Isn't that the same tactic some at the Oregon refuge were doing yet still got arrested and charged with a felony for filming and being critical of the government? Wasn't the charge interfering with law enforcement? Pete Santilli was one of those people and unless I'm mistaken he was just being an online journalist right? Also didn't the passengers of Levoy Finicum's vehicle have their cell phones confiscated? Why?

[mtrott]

Whoa, this judge is way wrong. Officers acting in public have no expectation of privacy. It is a good thing, imo, for them to be on notice that they may be recorded.

[Thumper1960]

This is, of course, a ridiculous ruling. It will not survive on appeal. The “judge” is an ass.

[NoLibZone]

Unionized government employees feel the images taken steal their souls.

[Amendment10]

With all due respect to the judge, I have two problems with his decision concerning recording cops.

First, the judge is arguably stealing legislative branch powers to subjectively read this decision into the 1st Amendment.

Next, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate INTRAstate police departments. So not only is this federal judge arguably stealing legislative powers to “amend” the 1st Amendment from the bench, but the judge is arguably breaching the Founding States division of federal and state government, stealing 10th Amendment-protected state legislative powers to do so.

Insights, corrections welcome.

[teletech]

So I guess soon we will need a VOID (Video Owners ID) card to wear a body cam.

[Political Junkie Too]

If the police want their actions to be kept secret, then we have a Secret Police.

-PJ

[AFreeBird]

Hey asswipe. It’s kinda hard to determine the use for defense before the fact. As for bystanders on the street, should we gouge their eyes out for seeing that which should not be seen?

Typical Obama ass kisser.

[gaijin]

Judge Mark Kearney