💬 Opinion 1d ago · Tosin Akintola

Border Agents Search Phones Without Warrants. This Case Asks the Supreme Court if That's Constitutional

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Border Agents Search Phones Without Warrants. This Case Asks the Supreme Court if That's Constitutional
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What started as a "narrow constitutional exception" now "threatens to swallow the protection it was meant only to qualify," according to an amicus brief filed last week by the Cato Institute asking the Supreme Court to reconsider a petition about warrantless searches of Americans at the border. 
The petitioner is George Anibowei, a Texas-based immigration attorney who has, on five separate occasions when traveling internationally, been stopped and had his phone searched at the border by federal

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