“THE greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” It’s almost as if, way back in 1927, Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis foresaw the advent of the 104th Congress and the so-called anticrime provisions of the “Contract with America.”
Brandeis’s eloquent dissent was rendered in a case interpreting the Fourth Amendment, that revered provision of the Bill of Rights that for 204 years in theory has prohibited an American police state by forbidding unreasonable searches and seizures.
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