MSNBC MSNBC Reports March 23, 2022 13:44:00
Fact specific. because courts, in order to stay in our appropriate role, can't make policy about police behavior writ large. can't just sort of look out into the universe and say, we have a constitution that says unreasonable searches and seizures so let us tell you all what that means. that's not the way that courts operate. under article iii, courts can only hear individual cases and controversies and decide them. so every court, including the supreme court, is looking at unreasonable search and seizures in the context of a particular dispute, where someone has had something searched by an o...