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Comment by:
PHORTO
(12/8/2019)
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I don't think judges exceed their authority in issuing confiscation orders per se, but they DO exceed their authority when doing so ex parte. It doesn't take a jury to decide, but it does require both sides being heard and presenting evidence.
Reasonable suspicion isn't probable cause, and that is the problem with these laws. The 4th Amendment mandates that arrest, search and seizure warrants may only issue upon probable cause of a crime, not of the possibility of a future crime, alleged without corroboration.
This isn't razor-edge parsing, either. There either IS probable cause, or there ISN'T.
And a mere allegation, ISN'T. |
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The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. — Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States before the Adoption of the Constitution [Boston, 1833]. |
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