Unreasonable suspicion is close enough for the feral government.
Whatever you do, don’t tell them you are crossing the border for “work”.
Micro SDs are your friend in hostile environments.
What the frack is going on??? How in HELL can this be okay???
My company has a policy that no company laptops are taken out of the country. If they need a laptop I’ll give them a loaner that has no data on it.
Korman, Edward Robert
Born 1942 in New York, NY
Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
Nominated by Ronald Reagan on October 2, 1985, to a new seat authorized by 98 Stat. 333. Confirmed by the Senate on November 1, 1985, and received commission on November 4, 1985. Served as chief judge, 2000-2007. Assumed senior status on October 25, 2007.
Education:
Brooklyn College, City University of New York, B.A., 1963
Brooklyn Law School, LL.B., 1966
New York University School of Law, LL.M., 1971
Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Kenneth Keating, New York State Court of Appeals, 1966-1968
Private practice, New York City, 1968-1970, 1982-1984
Assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of New York, 1970-1972, 1974-1978; chief assistant U.S. attorney, 1974-1978
Assistant to the solicitor general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1972-1974
U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, 1978-1982
Commissioner, New York Temporary Commission of Investigation, 1983-1985
Professor, Brooklyn Law School, 1984-1985
We need a photoshop of the twin towers in flames, one labelled “4th Amendment” and the other “2nd Amendment”.
The terrorists have won.
Ah, so if this can be done by a regime that the US has accused of mass murder with chemical weapons might do such a thing then it's perfectly fine for the US to do it, too. Can't wait to see VX nerve gas used at the next Occupy Wall Street rally.
From the article: “Korman found that the plaintiffs hadn’t shown they suffered injury that gave them standing to bring the suit. He also cited previous rulings finding that the Fourth Amendment constitutional right against unreasonable searches doesn’t apply to the government’s efforts to secure international borders from outside threats.”
Again, the ‘standing’ issue. That has become the modern day legal brick wall. What about the inherent injury that comes from having your private property searched, without probable cause? That’s not sufficient injury? This judge so rules...
Also from the article: [the plaintiff]””cannot be so naive to expect that when he crosses into Syrian or Lebanese border that the contents of his computer will be immune from searches and seizures at the whim of those who work for Bashar al-Assad or Hassan Nasrallah,” the judge said, referring to the president of Syria and leader of Hezbollah.”
So, we now rely on perceptions of actions taken (or presumed to be taken) by foreign countries and terrorist organizations as the foundation for US legal decisions?
This judge needs to be removed from the bench.
At the border, AND WITHIN 100 MILES of the border. Where 2/3 of Americans live.
This was an ACLU and other enemies of the US lawsuit based on some Muslim guy having lots of Hamas photos on his computer.
He was on Amtrak going to NY from Montreal where he was a graduate student at McGill in Islamic studies.
Interesting how just randomly the dude whose computer was examined had all sorts of photos of Hamas and the like.
The Bill of Rights is dying.
HHS is trashing the First Amendment in an act of supreme evil.
BATFE is trashing the Second Amendment in an ongoing power grab.
The Third Amendment is being gently nudged from time to time, but remains the most solid because FedGov doesn’t want to encroach that far. Yet.
US Border Patrol is trashing the Fourth Amendment, probably just because they can.
The Supremes trashed the Fifth Amendment with Kelo, and with civil forfeiture, and ObamaCare is adding to that crime against our rights.
The Ninth and Tenth Amendments have been dead for decades.
It’s sad what we have allowed to happen to the freedom we were obligated to pass on to our children.
Lets everyone bring a nonfunctioning, defunct laptop so the TSA can inspect each and every one. Lets waste their time to the max. Also, insist on a patdown: refuse the terahertz scan.
“Korman... cited previous rulings finding that the Fourth Amendment constitutional right against unreasonable searches doesn’t apply to the government’s efforts to secure international borders from outside threats.”
Appeal the case. The appeal only has to say:
“Only, they aren’t. California just issued a license to practice law to an illegal alien and as of Oh-now-thirty, the Feds haven’t arrested him”
How about including 100 miles from any illegal alien?
Nominated by President Reagan. WTF?
Please correct me if I am wrong.
For what it’s worth, searches of this kind are focused primarily on people bringing child porn into the country on their laptops.
Every single one.
Obamacare individual mandate - approved.
Challenge to presidential overrides of laws - dismissed.
Unconstitutional search of journalists at the border - approved.
Others?
-PJ