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Woman Sues US Border Agents Over Seized iPhone (bbc.com)
An American woman who had her phone seized by border agents as she returned home to the United States is suing the country's border protection agency. Bob the Super Hamste shares a report: Rejhane Lazoja was stopped at Newark airport, New Jersey, after returning from a trip to Switzerland in February. Her iPhone was seized by agents after she refused to unlock it for them. The lawsuit alleges that border agents took a copy of the data on her smartphone and failed to say whether it had been deleted. According to legal documents, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) kept the phone for more than 120 days before returning it to Ms Lazoja, who is a Muslim woman and wears a hijab. [...] "Neither was there probable cause, nor a warrant [to search the phone]. Therefore, the search and seizure of Ms Lazoja's property violated her rights under the Fourth Amendment," the filing says.
The constitutionality of it has not actually been upheld. All that is upheld is you have *less* rights to the right of privacy at the border.
When you cant win, ad hominem.
"Unreasonable" is a giant loophole, however, you can march a brigade of goons through it... See Border Search Exception...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Nope, the border extends 100 miles in land. Airports count as "the border."
Every 100 mile radius around every airport is a constitution free zone.
Don't play ninja dress up at the airport and they probably won't mess with you.
That would seem to be incorrect: Border Search Exception.
her lawyer should have told her that the border agents have that authority... as bad as it sounds...
That's debatable. Customs and Border Protection decided for themselves that they had the authority to search cell phones without a warrant, but that's being challenged in court.
The judge brought up the the similarity to a 2014 case where the Supreme Court held that police have to obtain a warrant to search a cellphone and refused to dismiss the case, so there's a reasonable chance of justice prevailing.
Sounds like its still up for legal debate according to the very article you linked. Last sentence of the 'electronic materials' section reads:
"In May of 2018, in U.S. v. Kolsuz, the Fourth Circuit court of appeals has held that it is unconstitutional for US border officials to subject visitors' devices to forensic searches without individualized suspicion of criminal wrongdoing.[20]"
If you didn't support Clinton's impeachment and support Trumps, you are a piece of shit.
Clinton's impeachment was over an affair he had, and was a political witch hunt. A Trump impeachment would be over many campaign finance law violations and (possibly) election law violations.
The latter impeachment would be far more justified than the former.