A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.
Tunick’s case also raises ongoing questions about what constitutional rights can be invoked at the border, which the U.S. government has long asserted is not U.S. soil until a person is authorized to enter.
So do the laws apply at the border or not? If he has no constitutional rights because he’s supposedly not on U.S. soil, then he couldn’t be breaking U.S. law, since he technically isn’t there…
So do the laws apply at the border or not? If he has no constitutional rights because he’s supposedly not on U.S. soil, then he couldn’t be breaking U.S. law, since he technically isn’t there…
They’re basically saying murder is legal at the border. Bizarre legal theory.