re: #150 EPR-radar

Do you mean “modify” the 4th amendment or “render it null and void” (from #114)?

Of course the Patriot Act is intended to modify what is and isn’t allowable in terms of surveillance etc. The 4th amendment serves as a boundary condition that sets limits on that tinkering. The courts have been reviewing Patriot Act provisions in view of the 4th amendment practically since the days it was passed.

I’m opposed to the Patriot Act, and would like to see it repealed, but I don’t think it is credible to assert that it renders the 4th amendment “null and void”.

my rhetoric is hyperbolic, but the again what part of the 4th amendment is left untouched by the “patriot” act?