Current Event: 4th Amendment

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/supreme_court_dispatches/2014/04/fourth_amendment_cellphone_cases_at_the_supreme_court_the_justices_are_tech.html

WHO
The police

WHAT
Phone searches

WHERE
California and Boston, MA

WHEN
April 29, 2014

WHY
The fourth amendment has to do with prohibiting unreasonable searches and seizures as well as requiring a warrant with probable cause. Police still search phones when they believe their safety is threatened or that possible evidence on it could be destroyed. By looking through the phones of the arrested people, the police found evidence of additional larger crimes. The men would then be arrested for those crimes along with their traffic fines. Is it fair for phones to be searched during minor infractions? Phones have so much information and without a warrant people can definitely argue that it is against the fourth amendment for policemen to search it without one.

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Current Event: 2nd Amendment

www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/03/13/is-idaho-right-to-allow-guns-on-campus

WHO
governor Butch Otter (signed law)

WHAT
right to allow concealed guns on campus

WHERE
Idaho

WHEN
March 2014

WHY
Otter said he swore to protect and defend the constitution, which is why he signed the law allowing concealed guns on campus. The law was drafted by the National Rifle Society. The second amendment is about the right to carry arms. Boise State University president Bob Kustra thought this law was doing the opposite of what the second amendment is all about; protecting lives. Will allowing guns really protect students or just lead to more violence? Many college and university presidents are against guns on campus although "all 50 states have laws permitting the carrying of concealed guns in public".