cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/67529
The Department of Justice is trying to prosecute a man allegedly involved in the movement against Atlanta’s Cop City for using a “duress” password on his smartphone that reportedly wiped its contents, in a seemingly unprecedented line of prosecution as the Trump administration expands its methods of criminalizing those with left-wing beliefs. According to The Guardian, the defendant…
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I hope Legal Eagle does an episode on this. All the articles I read are light on the legality of all this. SCOTUS has repeatedly and recently ruled that you don’t have the same rights at the boarder as you do in the interior.
I notice that his lawyers are arguing the 5th and 6th amendments, apparently because the 4th is weaker at the boarder?
the 4th is weaker at the boarder?
He was in an Atlanta airport, though, over a thousand miles from the border.
Ahh but don’t you see everything is the border.
I know they have jurisdiction anywhere within a hundred miles of the border, I think, and also at airports.
