Quote:Even warrants aren't safe anymore. Look up "no refusal DUI". The police officer doesn't have to establish cause. They just walk up to a judge at the site of the DUI checkpoint (also unconstitutional imo) and say that driver X is being a pain in the [BAD WORD REMOVED], and the judge writes in the person's name, signs a "fill in the blank" warrant and within minutes, the person is being compelled without probable cause to stick out their arm. What's to stop cops from doing "no refusal gun searches", where a judge is on call with a stack of fill in the blank warrants so that if someone refuses to allow cops into their home, all the judge has to do is sign a "reasonable suspicion of a crime being committed in the residence" warrant and the cops can flashbang the place, kick the door in and hold everyone at gunpoint for a few hours.

 

IMO, "no refusal" is in and of itself a violation of the Constitution and should be outlawed. As long as it exists, and especially given the happiness of police to accept warrants that have been scanned and emailed as a PDF in minutes vs. being presented in person within hours, it's a threat to everyone's freedoms. Between the concept of a warrant being crapped on and the now-implied ability of a President to use executive actions to circumvent Congress and the Constitution, there's a very, very real threat to our freedom being built brick by brick.