The alleged anti-Cop City activist was stopped and interrogated at the airport when reentering the US in January 2025.

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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  • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
    13·
    8 days ago

    I believe (I’m not a lawyer) that an international airport counts as “the border,” legally speaking.

    I don’t understand the history or the legal reasoning, but the fourth amendment is moot at the border. That sucks, but it’s not new.

    Under what is typically referred to as the “border search exception” to the Fourth Amendment, federal officers may generally conduct warrantless searches of persons and items upon their entry into the United States without needing reasonable suspicion or probable cause of wrongdoing.1 The Supreme Court has stated, “[t]hat searches made at the border, pursuant to the longstanding right of the sovereign to protect itself by stopping and examining persons and property crossing into this country, are reasonable simply by virtue of the fact that they occur at the border, should, by now, require no extended demonstration.”

    – Searches at International Borders, LII

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        9 days ago

        I just want to know what a phone can smuggle into the United States.

        These search laws are for contraband, large amounts of cash, human and animal trafficking and untaxed goods.

        None of that requires unlocking a phone and the if SCOTUS wasn’t a bullshit rubber stamp for the fascists, it would make that clear.