The U.S. Supreme Court: Architects of the American Police State

The Fourth Amendment is being inexorably bled to death. The latest wound, in which a unanimous Supreme Court determined that police officers may use drug-sniffing dogs to conduct warrantless searches of cars during routine traffic stops, comes on the heels of recent decisions by the Court that give police power to taser defenseless motorists, strip search non-violent suspects, and break down people's front doors without evidence that they have done anything wrong. If this trend continues, John Whitehead warns in this week's vodcast, the Supreme Court might just take the Fourth Amendment down for the count.